Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:09:04 +0100 From: Boris <koester@x-itec.de> 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: <9195261649.20010126200904@x-itec.de> In-Reply-To: <20010125201654.28780.qmail@nw176.netaddress.usa.net> References: <20010125201654.28780.qmail@nw176.netaddress.usa.net>
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Hello Assad, Thursday, January 25, 2001, 9:16:54 PM, you wrote: AK> Hi, AK> I have been seeing a FreeBSD-VS-Linux war on this mailing list and it has AK> disturbed me beyond tolerance. Which drove me to write this e-mail. I was not interested in this discussion, and i wanted to filter everything about it because it is (for me) a very non-important topic. I went from Linux to FreeBSD, and I have to say that FreeBSD is my solution, and it is very very great. AK> First I want to tell everyone that I love everything thats opensource and AK> free, that includes FreeBSD,Linux,OpenBSD and NetBSD. But my most loved OS is AK> Linux for the following reasons. [snip] ... I do not compare who has developed what, and who done this, and who is doing that, and who stole source from a or b. AK> of kernel 2.4.0 for Linux, its now an official gladiator in the arena of AK> Enterprise computing (although it is already running one of the most heavily AK> visited sites namely google.com,freshmeat.net...). Microsoft hates Linux's AK> guts while it seems to embrace the BSD's, for this reason alone is Linux worth AK> using! There is no argument to me anywhere why I should use linux. I tell you why I like FreeBSD: 1. The quality of the source is very great and clear. There are no script kiddies writing extensions what are not needed in reality. 2. The kind of developing, how everything is organised and the thing that we normal people can see how it is being better and better every day is very interesting. 3. FreeBSD is very stable and secure, and it really works on heavily loaded engines very well. I have tried it out by myself. I was very surprised. 4. I donīt like RPM files (*ggggggg) 5. The FreeBSD mailinglists are very informative and the people here are very helpful. I have never seen something before. 6. I have learned how to code very stable programs. Now I know what QS really means, and how to write stable code. It is the first time that I could look into such a big project like freebsd, and I have learned a lot about software design in general. Until now you can see the only thing i am looking for and the most important thing to decide what OS to use is for me the following: - The people. I went to FreeBSD because the people here are very high skilled and the niveau is very high. - The code. I have learned how to write better programs because it is possible to learn something about software design in general. - Quality and design of the OS structure in general. It is very great, there is no more to say. It was no wrong decision to go to FreeBSD, and maybe I will try out the other *BSD derivates soon. But I do not know if i will use linux again, maybe - maybe not. At the moment of writing, better not -) AK> much to improve and its BETTER than NT (for some of you falmers kind info). Maybe is linux and/or FreeBSD better than NT, but we all may not forget that there are jobs to be paid at all. Maybe you have heared somewhere that there are still some developers who want to make some money with their buggy products, and i am one of these people. Better running a program on a buggy OS and making money as not no make some money. Some of us are commercial developers, too. AK> And watch out, Linux is fast improving and *very* soon the BSD's might seem AK> redundant with Linux around! LOL. The only think I can say is: Everyone should decide personally for himself what to use, and thats all. The discussions Linux vs FreeBSD is completely nonsense. Use what you like and thats it. If you want to use Linux, be happy with it. I wanna use FreeBSD, and I am happy with it. enD oF tRANzMIzzIOn -) -- Boris http://www.x-itec.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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