Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 13:39:51 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: Freddie Cash <fcash@sd73.bc.ca> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Article about FreeBSD and GNU/Linux (not vs.). Message-ID: <20070531193951.GC49734@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <46520.66.183.237.91.1180627602.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> References: <e8b5dfd50705310115g4f3e8693gc17da17eb0957e28@mail.gmail.com> <46520.66.183.237.91.1180627602.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca>
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On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:06:42AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 1:15 am, TooMany Secrets wrote: > > In OSnews there is a new article about similarities and diferences > > between a FreeBSD system, and GNU/Linux. The article (I think) is newbie > > oriented, and isn't very deep (if you understand me), but the good one is > > it isn't a "bsd vs. linux" article. I only found one inaccuracy; "for > > example the most recent release is 6.1.", but in general is a good > > entrance for people interested in FreeBSD. > > > > The article: > > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/comparing_linux_and_freebsd? > > page=0%2C0 > > This "article" is very poorly written, and even more poorly researched. > It is full of inaccuracies, and not worth reading. Read the through the > comments on OSNews to see all things wrong with the article. It's very superficial in some respects, and it strays into inaccuracy by way of a lack of precision, but it's better written than a lot of supposedly "professional journalism" I've seen and might be worth a read by someone new to FreeBSD and uncertain of how to resolve the immediate differences, I think. One of the comments at OSNews -- the one that pointed out all the "inaccuracies" -- was in places a bit more pedantic than informative, but it also provided some useful elaborations. I think the format of this new article may have been a bit of a clone of articles by Dru Lavigne at ONLamp, the author of O'Reilly's "BSD Hacks" book. They might be more useful, all things considered. I seem to recall seeing links to Dru Lavigne's articles in the comments at OSNews. Umm . . . Here they are: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/11/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/01/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html Also, the URL of the OSNews item (since it's not at the top of the list any longer): http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=17998 -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: "Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts."
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