From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 19:42:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C4616A4BF for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [12.15.124.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67AD43F93 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:42:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net (evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.46.162.188]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88490BF; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:42:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris To: Jem Matzan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:42:08 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1066010968.41258.4.camel@.rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1066010968.41258.4.camel@.rochester.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310122142.08237.racerx@makeworld.com> Subject: Re: Request for comments X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:42:50 -0000 On Sunday 12 October 2003 09:09 pm, Jem Matzan wrote: > I'm writing a review of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and part of the review > entails outlining the significant differences between FreeBSD and > GNU/Linux (in a general sense). > > These are the points that I plan on writing about: > > Development philosophy > Development process > Delivery and installation of ported programs and packages > Cohesiveness of the kernel and the userland > The licensing > > Most of these I can handle on my own, but I'd like to add some official > comments from FreeBSD committers and contributors regarding development > philosophy and process. Also if you feel that I've left out something > important from the above list, please turn me on to it. > Thanks for taking the time to respond to my request. I dunno - but it seems to me that if someone, or some entity is going to write a review, the review is based on the reviewers experiance. to me, anything else would be considered hear-say, and really not a review at all. More, an opinion from other sources. That being said, the sources paraphrased would not represent a fair review in the othe camps eye. I might suggest simply doing a head to head eval of a distro of Linux, give it 30 days, then do the same with FBSD. Then, and only then (in my eyes) could you actually, and fairly write a review. Just my 2 pennies. X -- Best regards, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers ______________________________________________________________________ 01010010011000010110001101100101011100100101100000000000