Propoganda

From 'FreeBSD Unleashed' by M. Urban & B. Tiemann, SAMS Publishing ISBN
0672328755, pp 431-432.
"The Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) system is a GNU-licensed packager
that runs on many systems, including FreeBSD. It's popularity was a
large part of what pushed Red Hat to the top of the Linux distributions,
edging out the previous favorite, Slackware, which is now all but
forgotten - which should illustrate well how important a good packaging
system can be."

Contrast with
[url]http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=2002[/url]
Slackware rated 7th on page hit ranking, FreeBSD not in top 96
[url]http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=2003[/url]
Slackware rated 8th on page hit ranking, FreeBSD not in top 96
[url]http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=2004[/url]
Slackware rated 8th on page hit ranking, FreeBSD 15th
[url]http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=2005[/url]
Slackware rated 10th on page hit ranking, FreeBSD 11th
[url]http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=52[/url]
Slackware rated 9th on page hit ranking, FreeBSD 11th
(although who know how accurate these figures really are).

On Nov 30, 1:08 am, "anon" <a...@qwertyuiop.asd> wrote:[color=blue]
> From 'FreeBSD Unleashed' by M. Urban & B. Tiemann, SAMS Publishing ISBN
> 0672328755, pp 431-432.
> "The Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) system is a GNU-licensed packager[/color]

Yes, Linux is more popular than FreeBSD. Well spotted !
And, you might not believe it, MS Windows are even more popular.

DG

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, in
article <ekl7dd$1cfr$1@news.ndhu.edu.tw>, anon wrote:
[color=blue]
>From 'FreeBSD Unleashed' by M. Urban & B. Tiemann, SAMS Publishing ISBN
>0672328755, pp 431-432.
>"The Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) system is a GNU-licensed packager
>that runs on many systems, including FreeBSD. It's popularity was a
>large part of what pushed Red Hat to the top of the Linux distributions,
>edging out the previous favorite, Slackware, which is now all but
>forgotten - which should illustrate well how important a good packaging
>system can be."[/color]

While rpm is a nice application (and but one of several package managers
used in Linux), there are other substantial differences between the
"popular" (read that as "windoze luser friendly") distributions and the
more geeky Slackware (and Gentoo, and others). One _major_ difference is
the so-called "helper tools" available to help the typical clueless id10t
trying to use a "popular" distribution - especially in the administrative
areas. With something like Slackware, you actually have to use a text
editor. You have to read man pages. That isn't windoze luser friendly.
[color=blue]
>Contrast with
>[url]http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=2002[/url][/color]

[page hit counts]
[color=blue]
>(although who know how accurate these figures really are).[/color]

That's nice, but what it your point?

Old guy