Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:53:42 -0500 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: "Tsalicoglou, Isaak" <tisaak@student.ethz.ch>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *NIX Selection Message-ID: <20011130125342.A72960@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10111301240080.269-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>; from shovey@buffnet.net on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:40:16PM -0500 References: <786CB48E65ABC74CA1E25577B096357F3FE7F6@EXSTUD2.d.ethz.ch> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10111301240080.269-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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Well, yes, but we are somewhat biased. :)
Flat-out *missing*: not much. Both run a similar variety of
applications.
The "quality" bit can be explained a bit: Parts of FreeBSD are twice
as old as Linux, and have been contiuously debugged all that time.
The BSD community is a bit older, and the average programmer
experience is higher. This shows in a variety of little ways; I've
lost data on a Linux disk crash, while I've never lost data in a
FreeBSD crash. I've crashed a lot of them, mostly while teaching
myself ("gee, what does *this* command do? Uh oh...")
Also, Linux is technically just a kernel; everything else is the
responsibility of the distributor. FreeBSD produces a complete,
coherent operating system. I've known a lot of, say, Red Hat admins
who are lost on a Slackware box; they don't really run Linux, they run
Red Hat Linux. That isn't a problem on FreeBSD.
I find FreeBSD to be highly coherent and well-designed... it has an
overall rationale that is comfortable to work with, and makes a lot of
sense once you understand it. The central information repositories
(the FAQ and Handbook) are far simpler than the wide scattering of
HOWTOs that Linux favors.
Of course, YMMV. The only way you'll really know is to load it and
try it. I must say, I know a lot of people who have converted from
Linux to FreeBSD. I don't know anyone who has gone the other way.
(I'm sure they're out there, mind you, I just don't know any of them.)
==ml
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:40:16PM -0500, Stephen Hovey wrote:
>
> The short answer is 'quality'
>
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Tsalicoglou, Isaak wrote:
>
> > What more is there in BSD that's not in Linux? I am a Linux user since
> > some years and I would be interested to run BSD on my old machines.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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