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

["Rajiv Aaron Manglani-2" <user=56@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Nov 15, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> BSD does not run on laptops as well as Linux does -- hardware support 
> is lacking. 

there are some beautiful laptops which run BSD, have full hardware   
support, hibernate/sleep/wireless, developer toolchain, x11, all right   
out of the box: apple.com/macbook and apple.com/macbookpro 

http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html has some more info. 

> Package Availability: 
> Linux wins hands down.  Think of all the software that is available 
> out-of-the-box for Linux but not BSD.  You should even consider 

> proprietary software.  Can you run VMware, Skype, etc on BSD?  I never 
> tried.  Can you have the latest Gnome desktop running on OpenBSD 
> without breaking everything?  Possibly.  How about video driver 
> packages?  Rarely do I see 64-bit BSD driver support... 

agreed on open source software. fink.sf.net and macports.org provide   
many packages for os x. and all the commercial packages you mentioned   
are ported to os x (except notably vmware server console -- i run that   
in xp running in vmware on os x). 





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