Re: Comparison of BSD vs Linux? (here goes the flame war!)

["John Abreau-2" <user=184@nabble.blu.org>]

 I've never been impressed with BSD zealots' claims. 

For instance, one common claim is that BSD supports more 
hardware than Linux does. I looked into that claim back in 
1995, specifically at the 680x0 architecture. I found that 
Linux worked on a wide range of 680x0 systems, and BSD 
worked on those same systems, but that Linux counted 
them as one architecture while BSD counted them as 
a dozen different vendors. 

Many of the other claims I heard seemed to be about 
features of current BSD that were sorely lacking in Linux 
five or ten years earlier. 

In the end, I think the BSD vs Linux argument is no more 
meaningful than the Fedora vs Debian, Gnome vs KDE, 
and Vi vs Emacs arguments. Or Coke vs Pepsi, for that 
matter. 


Scott Ehrlich wrote: 
> I'm in a class at Usenix/Lisa and the instructor is a BSD fan and 
> hates Linux.  I'd like to get insight from the list of viewpoints, 
> security, comparisons, package availability, etc, of the differences 
> between the basic worlds of UNIX-like distros. 
> 
> Second, what are the differences among Open/Free/Net BSD? 
> 
> I'm not calling for any wars.   I'm looking for genuine education to 
> understand the worlds between Linux and BSD, and then among the BSD 
> distros. 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Scott 
>