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

["Charlie Bennett-3" <user=191@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 12:32 -0500, John Abreau 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. 
> 
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