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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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