From: Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>
Date: 2007-09-11T01:54:42+09:00
Subject: Re: What Linux distribution to choose for learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Chad Perrin wrote the following on 10.09.2007 18:46 :
> No . . . the "real source code action" would be in a BSD Unix (FreeBSD,
> NetBSD, OpenBSD), not any Linux distribution.  You can also get good
> package-based software management, at least with FreeBSD and NetBSD (I'm
> not familiar enough with OpenBSD to comment on it in this respect), if
> you want that too.  Back when I was a Debianista, my response to any
> recommendation to give Gentoo a try was "If I wanted to use Gentoo, I'd
> use FreeBSD instead."  Now, I use FreeBSD.
>   

It would be nice if you actually wrote what real advantages there are to
go with *BSD instead of Gentoo or whatever. I'm actually interested
because Gentoo is my current preference for a Linux distribution but I
never had the time to play with *BSD in a meaningful way. I could write
pages about how Gentoo is very good *for me* but I don't think that
would help much...

Or am I deceived and was it simple trolling around action? It can be
quite enjoyable, but please mark it <troll> </troll> then...

Lionel.