Comments on: What makes freeBSD feel old? http://morgajel.net/2007/03/24/116/ Stemming the flow of evincible Ignorance. We must try to understand for the sake of understanding. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:13:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: William Jolitz http://morgajel.net/2007/03/24/116/#comment-10475 William Jolitz Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:39:23 +0000 http://morgajel.net/2007/03/24/116/#comment-10475 Lot of the issues people have with BSD stem from a weird form of nostalgia. When I did 386BSD's console driver, was asked to test support for color text that many DOS programs moving to System V used. This became a target for BSDers to mock, along with anything that didn't match the antique VAX ways of doing things. It doesn't surprise me that installs tend to be broken, because the way things tend to not be tested uniformly, there's no way of checking it will work uniformly. BSD has had a history of allowing wild redefinition of application programming environments, and because they don't keep synced to the latest development tools (due to licensing issues sometimes), there's too much variation for many to test against. My son (http://ben.telemuse.net) has been comparing BSD, Linux, and Windows/Vista, and has a lot to say on this. But yes BSD feels old. Because they like it that way. Lot of the issues people have with BSD stem from a weird form of nostalgia. When I did 386BSD’s console driver, was asked to test support for color text that many DOS programs moving to System V used. This became a target for BSDers to mock, along with anything that didn’t match the antique VAX ways of doing things.

It doesn’t surprise me that installs tend to be broken, because the way things tend to not be tested uniformly, there’s no way of checking it will work uniformly. BSD has had a history of allowing wild redefinition of application programming environments, and because they don’t keep synced to the latest development tools (due to licensing issues sometimes), there’s too much variation for many to test against.

My son (http://ben.telemuse.net) has been comparing BSD, Linux, and Windows/Vista, and has a lot to say on this.

But yes BSD feels old. Because they like it that way.

]]> By: Jesse Morgan http://morgajel.net/2007/03/24/116/#comment-3622 Jesse Morgan Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:10:10 +0000 http://morgajel.net/2007/03/24/116/#comment-3622 The installer was broken since you couldn't select anything at the menu. But besides that, it's just a matter of keeping up with the times- by not updating itself, it's like they want it to be the next vax or something... archaic and a pain in the ass to use. The installer was broken since you couldn’t select anything at the menu.

But besides that, it’s just a matter of keeping up with the times- by not updating itself, it’s like they want it to be the next vax or something… archaic and a pain in the ass to use.

]]> By: Pedro Vera http://morgajel.net/2007/03/24/116/#comment-3615 Pedro Vera Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:55:58 +0000 http://morgajel.net/2007/03/24/116/#comment-3615 Trivial is not the same as broken. Why fix something that isn't broken? Why waste resources in making the install prettier instead of adding functionality to the install? That said, the partitioning utility sucks horribly. Trivial is not the same as broken. Why fix something that isn’t broken?

Why waste resources in making the install prettier instead of adding functionality to the install?

That said, the partitioning utility sucks horribly.

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