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 and
free, that includes FreeBSD,Linux,OpenBSD and NetBSD. But my most loved OS is
Linux for the following reasons.
For its age Linux has gone farther than any other OS has, including *BSD's.
The BSD's have a history of 20+ years and you are trying to prove that its
superior as compared to Linux? Give me a break! If they werent superior even
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 foreign
source code. While the BSD's contained actual AT&T code for quite some time
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 release
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 heavily
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 done
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 seem
redundant with Linux around!
Regards,
Assad Khan.
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