Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:56:25 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com> To: Assad Khan <assad.khan@usa.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101251550020.6749-100000@joe.pythonvideo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010125201654.28780.qmail@nw176.netaddress.usa.net>
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Microsoft is great at com calls, you dont see me running it. From past experiences converting high traffic servers from NT -> Linux -> BSD, BSD IS the better of the three. Never have the servers which i run been so stable. As for the 2.4.0 Kernel, it was just released. Im sure there will be plenty of root exploits, bugs, problems (as always) with it to soon be found. You've said it yourself, BSD has a 20+ year headstart over linux so logic would say that it is the better OS. My understanding is that the BSD code audit is better than linux, which explains why the amount of exploits for BSD servers/services are non-existant compared to linux. As for Linux being better than NT? Ofcourse it is but hey, which OS isnt better than NT?! Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" FreeBSD: "Hey,when are you guys going to catch up" On 25 Jan 2001, Assad Khan wrote: > Hi, > > 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! > > This discussion could go on without an end, but my point is not to prove that > Linux is better than FreeBSD or any other BSD but to say that Linux has done > much to improve and its BETTER than NT (for some of you falmers kind info). > And watch out, Linux is fast improving and *very* soon the BSD's might seem > redundant with Linux around! > > Regards, > Assad Khan. > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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