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

["Christopher Giroir" <user=1544@nabble.blu.org>]

 FreeBSD is pretty nice as a distro. I finally got around to trying it 
a bunch. I found this website pretty helpful on the linux vs bsd 
discussion: 
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php

This helps point out the one main thing I feel is the biggest 
difference between linux and bsd: 
BSD is the entire base OS, not just the kernel. There are many things 
that this causes and I think that article above talks about most of 
them. That article is biased towards BSD but it's good to get such a 
drawn out explanation of why he's biased. 

On my desktop I have a FreeBSD partition at the moment and it does 
feel extremely clean and stable. The base OS is all maintained 
together and feels like that. I've been able to install EVERYTHING I 
use on linux through the ports system (gnome, firefox, vim, emacs, 
mutt etc) so it feels very much like linux once X windows is started 
up. 

As far as the differences from Free/Open and Net most other people 
have already pointed it out but Open is for security, Net is for 
portability and Free is a general purpose distro. If you're looking 
for a desktop system I have to recommend FreeBSD as the one to try. If 
you have any experience with gentoo (and liked it) you'll love the 
ports system in BSD. I find it cleaner and well thought out. 

Anyway, hope that linked article helps. 
Chris 

On Nov 15, 2007 11:30 AM, Scott Ehrlich <[hidden email]> 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. 
> 
> Second, what are the differences among Open/Free/Net BSD? 
> 
> I'm not calling for any wars.   I'm looking for genuine education to 
> understand the worlds between Linux and BSD, and then among the BSD 
> distros. 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Scott 
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