Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:55:34 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Assad Khan <assad.khan@usa.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side!] Message-ID: <14960.44774.739060.400919@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <120548428@toto.iv>
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Assad Khan <assad.khan@usa.net> types: > My venting is a result of some people equating Linux with Windows > NT. I didn't see anyone doing that. I saw people complaining that some of the Linux distributions acted like Windows distributions, but that's a different thing. > I am more for unity than fighting. When I joined this list I thought > I would find people that appreciated Linux and its efforts, > unfortunately it was otherwise. We Linux users regard BSD as a big > brother to Linux, but you seem not to act that way. You're right, I don't. Linux is a nice, SysVish system that benefits from Open Source. If I was interested in such, I'd find a Linux distribution I liked. Linux also makes a nice desktop system, with better support for oddball hardware, and distributions built to cater to Windows users. The latter I don't want, and would avoid in a BSD system as well as a Linux system. The former I'm willing to give up to get BSD instead of SysV. <mike > Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com> wrote: > 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 writte= > n > 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 o= > f > > Enterprise computing (although it is already running one of the most > heavily > > visited sites namely google.com,freshmeat.net...). Microsoft hates Linu= > x's > > guts while it seems to embrace the BSD's, for this reason alone is Linu= > x > worth > > using! = > > > = > > > This discussion could go on without an end, but my point is not to prov= > e > 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 in= > fo). > > 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=3D= > 1 > > = > > > = > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > = > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= > 1 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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