Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:10:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: Assad Khan <assad.khan@usa.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side! Message-ID: <20010127121012.F12091@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101251546450.25316-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>; from culverk@wam.umd.edu on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:57:54PM -0500 References: <20010125201654.28780.qmail@nw176.netaddress.usa.net> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101251546450.25316-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
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On Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 15:57:54 -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: >> 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. >> >> 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. > >> 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. >> 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. Linux has a more open model >> of developement as compared to any of the BSD's. 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...). Microsoft >> hates Linux's guts while it seems to embrace the BSD's, for this >> reason alone is Linux worth using! > > Where do you think the 2.4 kernel got it's networking and vm > code? FreeBSD! No, that's not correct. The VM system has borrowed a lot from FreeBSD, but the networking code is still very different, though it's true that they're borrowing individual features. > OF course most linux zealots like yourself would not stop to realize > this. Linux's model of development is FAR from being more open than > FreeBSD's and it could be argued that FreeBSD's model is FAR more > open. These are all matters of opinion, of course. FreeBSD-questions isn't really the place to discuss opinions, especially when the danger exists that they could escalate into a flame war. > The ONLY reason that linux 2.4 is going to be any better is because > linus took most of the Tcp/ip stack and most of the vm code from > FreeBSD. Get your facts straight before you send flamebait to lists. Indeed :-) Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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