Date: 25 Jan 2001 19:36:43 MST From: Assad Khan <assad.khan@usa.net> To: "Mike Thompson" <mike.thomson@onlinecables.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RE: [Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side!]] Message-ID: <20010126023643.28764.qmail@nwcst282.netaddress.usa.net>
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"Mike Thompson" <mike.thomson@onlinecables.com> wrote: >I used to appreciate Linux's efforts, as Linux was able to do what no >other *nix could do, and that is to have mass appeal. Somehow Linux >acquired this sexy, yet underdogish aura. Now, with public appeal comes >two things, 1. resources (money, programmers, etc) and 2. the >requirement of giving the public what it wants. Now the former is >wonderful. The latter, however is what bugged me. Perhaps I am in the >minority of liking my servers lean. Which was something Linux initially >had going for it, but now... cool new features seem to have taken the >front seat over performance, stability, and most obviously security. Why= >do they keep adding extra bells and whistles? Because you go down to >your local software store, and you've got what? ~15 flavors of Linux?! >And of course they all give glittering generalities like "fast, stable, >secure, blah". Now the consumer is forced to go after unique things "Now= >with over 200 GUI's to choose from!", "now with 2500 password less >accounts pre set-up to save you the time and hassle of adding users!", >"Now with plug and play support of most major appliances!", etc. >In short, Linux was a good thing, and the Unix community was >appreciative. >But Linux got greedy, factions fought, brand names got muddled... and as= >sad as this is... to most of the world BSD, AIX, Solaris, (etc) and >Linux are all the same. (there are two OSes in this world Windows and >other.) >So now that Linux lost it's way and the Unix community as a whole gets >to pay for it, don't expect us to be happy about it, and don't preach >about unity. >ok, enough of my bitching. Yes, you are absolutely right, Linux has indeed gotten greedy. Distributi= ons like Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE have divided Linux into their own OS's. T= hey hardly look like the same basic OS when you move from one distro to anoth= er. Heck SuSE even changed the FH (Filesystem Hierarchy) which is not helping= Linux the Linux cause at all, it may even be harming it when you consider= its long range effects. Commercial developers will not write many apps for Li= nux due to the above mentioned fact. The only distro's worth using are Debian= Linux and Slackware Linux which I must admit are more like UNIX hence the= ir suitibility for productive use. ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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