From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 7 16:51: 6 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 BCF5F37B401 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:51:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B2543E4A for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:51:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5638E5191F; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 10:58:14 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 10:58:14 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: BSD's edge over Linux (was: Daemon's Advocate article) Message-ID: <20021208002814.GA96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021205133147.GB52021@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021205133147.GB52021@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 Thursday, 5 December 2002 at 13:31:47 +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 > economy downturn, that could become more significant in the IT sector. But > other than that, what do we have that inherently holds a sustainable lead > over Linux? Or will it simply always be a case of 'BSD is different, but > not necessarily better?' Always is a long time. There's nothing that BSD has that Linux couldn't get if it really wanted. The least likely change would be for Linux to change to a BSD license. Everything else could change. The Linux kernel is still far less mature than the BSD kernel, which gives it the flexibility to change for the better. We've seen multiple borrowings from BSD; that could continue. I'd prefer to look at it from the perspective of the distant future. What will operating systems look like in 10 years time? In 20? 20 years ago, 4.2BSD was released. 10 years ago we saw the first free BSD operating systems. There's a good chance that BSD and Linux will still be around in 20 years, but what will they look like? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message