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Heh, You know Linux has been getting soft and Gooey around the edges when there are Unix manuals for Linux users :-) When I went from Slackware to FreeBSD in

by mahmud 16y ago

Heh, You know Linux has been getting soft and Gooey around the edges when there are Unix manuals for Linux users :-) When I went from Slackware to FreeBSD in 1998, the only document you needed was INSTALL and the hardware compatibility list. In fact, FreeBSD was more posh than slack, it had a curses install and came with a luxurious handbook. Speaking of which, I absolutely don't miss the days of taking a list of supported devices to the computer shop, and reading the fine print on boxes looking for chipset specs and firmware versions.

chbarts 16y ago
Linux is precisely as Gooey as you want it to be. So's FreeBSD, as a matter of fact. This isn't Windows. This isn't MacOS. Each PC Unix variant offers you precisely as much choice as far as your UI goes.