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Performance v.s. Quality

Performance v.s. Quality

Posted Nov 6, 2005 5:45 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Performance v.s. Quality by b7j0c
Parent article: FreeBSD Project Launches FreeBSD 6.0

b7j0c wrote:

> > Can you point these consistent and practical
> > advantages out?

> once again, better man pages, superior code delivery
> solution in /ports,
[snip performance claim]

Please check ports as well. Unlike Debian that has a strict policy for not recieving programs with no man pages (e.g: who wrote the man pages for KDE?), FreeBSD has no problem with those.

> i am not knocking linux. i also use Ubuntu linux,
> which is the first distro in my opinion to approach
> freeBSD's "system" approach.

You managed to miss Debian.


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Performance v.s. Quality

Posted Nov 7, 2005 6:17 UTC (Mon) by mepr (guest, #4819) [Link]

being a debian user, I'll be the iconoclast and point out that some of the debian man pages consist of something equivelant to the following:

"um, yeah.
We haven't gotten around to writing this.
It's fine if you write one for us.
Thanks"

Performance v.s. Quality

Posted Nov 7, 2005 10:22 UTC (Mon) by syntaxis (subscriber, #18897) [Link]

Which ones? Bugs should be filed against those packages...

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