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

["Grant M.-2" <user=130@nabble.blu.org>]

 I've used both netBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, and other various *nixes, and 
feel that there are often specific reasons to use each of them. netBSD 
used to have something like a 6-month release schedule for updates (*I 
don't know if that's changed or not), which was nice from the standpoint 
of administration, but not always best when there was a critical flaw. 
RedHat on the other hand has far too many updates, and it would be nice 
if they did _better_ patching and fewer updates just for the sake of 
updates. 

Regardless of the arguments, you should probably put together a list of 
requirements for your OS, as well as things you'd like to see, and then 
choose from there. Make sure to account for all of the life-cycle, as I 
just ran an update from RHEL4 to RHEL5 and it was relatively painful. 

Thanks, 
Grant M. 
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