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



 On Nov 15, 2007 1:35 PM, Dan Ritter <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:30:29AM -0500, 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. 
> 
> It's not a battle worth fighting. 
> 
> OpenBSD sacrifices everything else for a particular view of 
> security. If you like that view and can use it, do so. 
> 
> FreeBSD wants to be a general-purpose UNIX OS. It does an OK 
> job of that, but it has no particular claim to fame otherwise. 
> 
> NetBSD might get back on its feet sometime soon. They used to 
> claim better portability than anything else, but that's no 
> longer the case. 
> 
> MacOS X sacrifices everything else to be a user-friendly desktop 
> OS. It has a BSD userland. 
> 
> Solaris largely focuses on being a high-reliability server OS. 
> It's not a BSD, but what the heck. 
> 
> All of these really want you to become a partisan zealot on 
> their behalf. There's nothing wrong with them in moderation, but 
> you;ll go blind if you drink too much of their Kool-Aid. 
> 
> Meanwhile, the differences between Debian derivatives and Red 
> Hat derivatives and Build-From-Source initiatives and special 
> purpose Linux distros are on the same scale as the differences 
> between BSDs. 
> 
> -dsr- 
> 


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