From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 09:12:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B3E1065674 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:12:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.spinella@rfc1925.net) Received: from joy.rfc1925.net (host10-102-static.12-87-b.business.telecomitalia.it [87.12.102.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DFD8FC16 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from joy.rfc1925.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by joy.rfc1925.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A33BB125618 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:12:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rfc1925.net Received: from joy.rfc1925.net ([127.0.0.1]) by joy.rfc1925.net (joy.rfc1925.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id fH5TJo-zpO+G for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:12:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from LSD25.communicationvalley.it (unknown [194.246.127.224]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: a.spinella@rfc1925.net) by joy.rfc1925.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 41F241255BC for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:12:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4E536F05.6090000@rfc1925.net> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:12:37 +0200 From: Alessandro Spinella User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110818 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3396736345-1119661735@intranet.com.mx> <8D1916B6-889F-4ECB-8455-17FE27F52684@d3photography.com> <3396744913-1119661742@intranet.com.mx> <20110823102439.e0e71e0d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110823102439.e0e71e0d.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: A quality operating system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:12:21 -0000 On 08/23/11 10:24, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:13:32 -0500, Jorge Biquez wrote: >> Seriously I would like to see or hear about the comparison chart >> between all OSs. And a question arrive to my mind... if for some >> reason, I know it is impossible, but if for some reason FreeBSD would >> stop existing... serious users of FreeBSD, what would be your next OS? Why? > > Surely one of the other BSDs (OpenBSD as 1st choice, NetBSD as > second), maybe some of the more "UNIX-like" Linusi (the "too > complicated" ones, maybe those relying on source), and of course > Solaris and Mac OS X are worth mentioning here. Those systems > could be productive and good to maintain if FreeBSD should ever > disappear. > ciao, i reference to rule #10 of RFC1925 that states : <> from my point of view it is a truth also in OS, not only in networking. as long as my goal is a videogame station the "quality" OS maybe very different from the one i will consider "qualitative" for a webfarm. in short the goal drives choice, and from my experience (over 35 years in IT) FreeBSD is the best-fit for use in internetworking, partially due to his resilence, partially for the overall quality of the kernel, partially for the ease-of-use, the ease-to-understood, open-source software availability and more "minor" properties it is relatively simple to build and maintain a webfarm with FreeBSD as the *exclusive* OS without fear of "hackers", spam, virus and almost all internet-zoo. in short : i *love* FreeBSD, if ever it will die feel there are more and more volunteers to bulid a new one that will honour the "twelve networking rules" cheers Alessandro