From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 20:00:49 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 367A816A4B3 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [12.15.124.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68CB443FDD for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:00:48 -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 AF281BF; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:00:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris To: Jem Matzan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:00:05 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1066010968.41258.4.camel@.rochester.rr.com> <200310122142.08237.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <200310122142.08237.racerx@makeworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310122200.05087.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 03:00:49 -0000 On Sunday 12 October 2003 09:42 pm, Chris wrote: > 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. ... and as a followup, more of the info you seek (in a general sense) is, and can be found on the FreeBSD site and a slew of other FreeBSD-dedicated sites via a Google search. Add another penny please. 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