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

["Eugene Gorelik" <user=1500@nabble.blu.org>]

 I think one of the reasons why BSD is still relatively popular is the fact 
that it is licensed under BSD license, which allow commercial organizations 
to modify BSD operating system, and resell it as part of their software 
suites. GPL license restrict people from doing that. 

By the way, couple years ago I've heard some rumors circulating in the web, 
saying that Microsoft used some of the BSD TCP/IP stack code in Windows 
NT/2000 : 

http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/19/05641/7357

In terms of packages, hardware support and other things, I completely agree 
with what have already been said - Linux beats BSD. BSD also has much 
smaller development team, so it takes much longer to fix bugs and develop 
new features. 

 Eugene. 

On Nov 15, 2007 12:32 PM, John Abreau <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> 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 
> > 
> 
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