Date: 25 Jan 2001 13:16:54 MST From: Assad Khan <assad.khan@usa.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side! Message-ID: <20010125201654.28780.qmail@nw176.netaddress.usa.net>
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Hi,
I have been seeing a FreeBSD-VS-Linux war on this mailing list and it=
has
disturbed me beyond tolerance. Which drove me to write this e-mail.
First I want to tell everyone that I love everything thats opensource an=
d
free, that includes FreeBSD,Linux,OpenBSD and NetBSD. But my most loved O=
S is
Linux for the following reasons.
For its age Linux has gone farther than any other OS has, including *BS=
D's.
The BSD's have a history of 20+ years and you are trying to prove that it=
s
superior as compared to Linux? Give me a break! If they werent superior e=
ven
now, then they did not deserve to be used at all. Plus Linux was written =
from
scratch, even though it was derived from Minix it did not contain any for=
eign
source code. While the BSD's contained actual AT&T code for quite some ti=
me
and then they built upon that when they 'migrated' to 4.4BSD. Linux has a=
more
open model of developement as compared to any of the BSD's. With the rele=
ase
of kernel 2.4.0 for Linux, its now an official gladiator in the arena of
Enterprise computing (although it is already running one of the most heav=
ily
visited sites namely google.com,freshmeat.net...). Microsoft hates Linux'=
s
guts while it seems to embrace the BSD's, for this reason alone is Linux =
worth
using! =
This discussion could go on without an end, but my point is not to prove =
that
Linux is better than FreeBSD or any other BSD but to say that Linux has d=
one
much to improve and its BETTER than NT (for some of you falmers kind info=
).
And watch out, Linux is fast improving and *very* soon the BSD's might se=
em
redundant with Linux around!
Regards,
Assad Khan.
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