Re: DragonFlyBSD

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Jean Louis wrote:

>>> What I like is system consistency, like what Debian has,
>>> that one can upgrade the system over and over again
>>> without reboot, and all things work. Uptime like 536 days
>>> or 966 days is what I have now on some computers
>>> with Debian.
>> 
>> Yeah I've used Debian for a long time, I like it a lot but
>> don't say necessarily it is better than other distros.
>
> For me, I look from freedom viewpoint, I cannot recommend
> Debian as it will recommend non-free software to fellows.
> So I exclude non-free and use those FSF fully free
> distributions, sometimes self-made distribution for myself
> only. It's not that hard to build it yourself.

You can do that on Debian by excluding the non-free part from
the sources.list line(s) - never heard of anyone actually
doing that tho ...

>> In particular, I think the package manager system and whole
>> idea installing stuff explicitely from the command line
>> should be replaced by a declarative system. It would have
>> rollback features and all, but that's not the most
>> important thing, the most important thing would be to have
>> the system configurable and setup with precision and ease
>> in text files like you do everything else in computing ...
>
> I don't like text files

?

> I expect system to be very adjustable through user friendly
> menus

??

> And on GUI I would be doing it with mouse

???

> In fact I expect in 21st century that computer knows me
> enough, so that I do not need to adjust anything

????

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