Subj : Re: NetBSD 10
To   : niter3
From : tenser
Date : Thu Apr 04 2024 09:08:34

On 03 Apr 2024 at 12:47p, niter3 pondered and said...
 
 ni>  te> Funny, most Linux distros kind of feel like a toy to me.
 ni>  te> BSD feels more like "real" Unix, but maybe that's just
 ni>  te> because it's closer to what I grew up with, so to speak.
 ni> 
 ni> What makes it feel like a toy?

It's hard to articulate, as it's more a sense of "feel"
than anything else.  But I often find that random things
either don't work, or don't work as expected, when I put
together a Linux instance.  Things that _should_ be simple
are over-complicated (like the boot loader, or systemd)
or don't work (lookin' at you, AX.25 and NET/ROM, or a
number of older network utilities like `talk`).  A lot of
things like traditional Unix stuff like man pages are
incomplete (or even worse) references to other things.  I
find the graphics stuff over complex and ugly.  Things
like dbus tend to break all the time.  Ugh.

The old joke was BSD was what happens when Unix people port
to the PC, and Linux is what happens when PC people try to
build a Unix.  It's not a terrible analogy.

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