Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 22:12:04 +0200 From: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook Message-ID: <AANLkTikh-BCJy%2B3c1-b1F2_ffR5WWFZRHiUKWDR0QvZh@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101006181401.GB75552@guilt.hydra> References: <BLU0-SMTP206334E008974E47D19DF37936D0@phx.gbl> <4CAB25B1.6050906@radel.com> <4CAB2731.9090502@exonetric.com> <AANLkTi=XR8n9XQfzqtXV7o9EPa=VYO=ADAjciNb_xjZy@mail.gmail.com> <20101006181401.GB75552@guilt.hydra>
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On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:50:42AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> wrote= : >> > There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really >> > aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that= arena >> > is entirely coincidental. >> >> That tends to be my perspective. =A0Linux tends to be more useful on >> laptops and desktops, where up-to-the-minute hardware support is >> needed. =A0For servers, where stability is important, I tend to prefer >> BSD, all other things being equal. > > Weird. =A0I guess maybe my excellent experience of using FreeBSD on my > ThinkPad is "wrong", and so is my experience of various Linux > distributions having more maintenance issues than FreeBSD on similar > hardware, and I should stop. No, it=B4s not wrong .. just keep buying ThinkPads .. most devels use them and hence .. they get more attention. > >> >> Besides the mindshare issue that's been mentioned, part of the problem >> here is the balkanized nature of open source licenses, too. =A0Linux >> driver code is useless to FreeBSD developers because the GPL isn't >> compatible with the BSD license. > > I don't think that's the case. =A0Maybe such drivers cannot be integrated > directly with the base system without licensing issues, but it can > certainly be distributed and installed when appropriate. =A0It is, in fac= t, > for this reason of compatibility that FreeBSD has had ZFS support where > Linux-based systems have not. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] >
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