From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 19:59:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101E6106564A for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:59:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C88B98FC17 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:59:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-104-16.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.104.16]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149821E3F5; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:59:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id p9VJxSLV002265; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:59:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:59:28 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Zantgo Message-Id: <20111031205928.35244cdf.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: What are the technical differences between Linux and BSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:59:31 -0000 On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:50:11 -0300, Zantgo wrote: > I mean, like BSD is based on the original UNIX, and Linux on > System V, Linux should include new technologies, or why not?, > Is that Linux includes more new hardware, but I mean as is > "within "management technologies, security, etc. .. Compage to "The UNIX system family tree: Research and BSD" found in /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree on your local installation. Also keep in mind that while FreeBSD has a concept of "the operating system" and "ported applications" / "3rd party software", Linux does not have such a differentiation, so it's a bit complicated of comparing "just the OSes" to each other. Things like security and hardware support have their basics within the kernel, those are abstracted by libraries; some of them are part of the OS, others are provided by additional software. > PD: I know that BSD is more secure, stable and fast, although > in relation to performance, ports are not very fast. I don't think so. It's possible that ports, compiled for the architecture in use, as well with using optimizations that are not part of the default settings (with which the packages are made) can benefit _faster_ operations of ports vs. packages. An example is mplayer, when compiled for older systems: Here flags depending on the CPU actually in use can help. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...