ESR has a new post up "Autotools Must Die" http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1877 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1877 . His main suggestion is moving to something else - he

ESR has a new post up "Autotools Must Die" http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1877 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1877 . His main suggestion is moving to something else - he suggests scons http://www.scons.org/ http://www.scons.org/ . As far as the linux-hate promoted by BSDers; I would like to try FreeBSD, and have been mildly interested since the late 1990s. Why don't you people make it reasonably available to people who don't personally know anyone who is running it and can't download it?