From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 23:44:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail10.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail10.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF0437B402 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:44:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from cx443070b ([24.0.36.170]) by femail10.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010126074406.RRXS6975.femail10.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cx443070b>; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:44:06 -0800 Message-ID: <000d01c0876c$1afc6460$aa240018@cx443070b> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Assad Khan" , References: <20010125201654.28780.qmail@nw176.netaddress.usa.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side! Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:46:34 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have been seeing a FreeBSD-VS-Linux war on this mailing list and it has > disturbed me beyond tolerance. Which drove me to write this e-mail. So you've decided to join in. First I want to tell everyone that I love everything thats opensource and free, that includes FreeBSD,Linux,OpenBSD and NetBSD. But my most loved OS is Linux for the following reasons. Linux isn't an OS. It's a kernel. That's like saying GNU HURD is my favorite OS, or kernel32.dll is my favorite OS. How about io.sys is my favorite OS ? > For its age Linux has gone farther than any other OS has, including *BSD's. >The BSD's have a history of 20+ years and you are trying to prove that its >superior as compared to Linux? Give me a break! If they werent superior even >now, then they did not deserve to be used at all. FreeBSD Version 1.0 (December, 1993) Last time I checked 2001-1994 != 20 Not to mention the fact that your reasoning here is stupid. You say Linux has done more in less time, yet it's still inferior to BSD, yet somehow this is a reason to use Linux ? I have a Buick which will 0-35 faster than your car, but it's top speed is 45 miles per hour. Would you rather have my Buick or your car ? Going from 7th place to 5th place very quickly doesn't mean a damned thing until you pass a few more people. You're still losing. >Plus Linux was written from >scratch, even though it was derived from Minix it did not contain any foreign >source code. While the BSD's contained actual AT&T code for quite some time >and then they built upon that when they 'migrated' to 4.4BSD. So now being derived from the original "Unix" is now a flaw ? It used to be a claim to fame as I recall. > Linux has a more open model of developement as compared to any of the BSD's. Open model of development ? >With the release of kernel 2.4.0 for Linux, its now an official gladiator in the arena of >Enterprise computing (although it is already running one of the most heavily >visited sites namely google.com,freshmeat.net...). What exactly is it about 2.4.0 that makes it Enterprise as opposed to the previous versions of Linux ? Have you seen the benchmarks ? > Microsoft hates Linux's guts while it seems to embrace the BSD's, > for this reason alone is Linux worth using! That is the stupidest thing you've said so far. So when Microsoft embraces Linux, are you going to run to Solaris ? > Linux has done much to improve and its BETTER than NT (for some of you falmers kind info). Better than NT ? Isn't that like the taller than Napoleon award ? Everyone wins. >And watch out, Linux is fast improving and *very* soon the BSD's might seem redundant with Linux around! Might seem redundant ? Do you understand the term redundant ? Give me a break. You're talking out your ass, spouting Linux advocacy bullshit on a FreeBSD mailing list. Get the hell off this list and stop throwing your Linux shit in my mailbox. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message