From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 7 15:13:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C1E37B401 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 15:13:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 049E843E4A for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 15:13:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 9390 invoked by uid 417); 7 Dec 2002 23:13:26 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 7 Dec 2002 23:13:26 -0000 Received: from localhost ([216.194.7.155]) by softhome.net with esmtp; Sat, 07 Dec 2002 16:10:29 -0700 Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1040B7DB; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:07:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:07:41 -0500 From: Joshua Lee To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, grog@lemis.com Subject: Re: Daemon's Advocate article Message-ID: <20021206200741.GA23643@softhome.net> References: <20021205133147.GB52021@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021205133147.GB52021@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:31:47PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > BSD has long enjoyed performance and stability advantages over Linux, but as > Grog remarks in the recent DA article, Linux is catching up. > > Are there any areas where BSD will more than likely *always* have an > advantage over Linux? I know licensing is one, and with the current global Ease of administration and use by someone literate in Unix, everything just makes sense. CVSUping the kernel, ports tree, docs, and userland is something also unlikely to enter the Linux world completely because there is an artificial barrier between the kernel and userland. That is, if the Linux kernel, or anything else in Linux, ever gets a useful and unencumbered revision control system in the first place. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message