From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 19:00:55 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 A19AF37B401 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 19:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B58EC43FA3 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 19:00:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4H20r14046438 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 21:00:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4H20rbG046437 for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 16 May 2003 21:00:53 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 21:00:53 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305162100.53036.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Subject: Re: freebsd vs. linux - educated opinions wanted 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: Sat, 17 May 2003 02:00:55 -0000 On Friday 16 May 2003 07:57 pm, Aaron Peterson wrote: [...] > > 1. There is better hardware support for linux, and more features > because there are more developers. Better hardware support? I don't confuse "support of more hardware" with the claim of "better hardware support." So what if by some chance FreeBSD doesn't support some oddball reverse-engineered proprietary 1x CDROM hardware interface that Linux supports? Is my understanding Linux does have better support for WinModems than FreeBSD. I would hate to go back to a telephone modem now that I've had cablemodem for so long. But I remember back in those days that all modems were finicky, WinModems even more so. Finally over the past couple of years I have quit hearing Linux people recite a litany of their current patch level when describing their installation. In the past it was quite common to have to hunt down patches from various sources to get Linux to do something a real Unix system should do. Support for file size > 2GB comes to mind. > 2. Linux code is often not as well written as freebsd because freebsd > developers are more unified, focused and strict. I think its more of a matter that Linux people are mostly religious converts from Windows and still measure things with a Microsoft yardstick. BSD people just love Unix and don't have to hate Microsoft to give meaning to their lives, but also do not let Microsoft set the standards for judging their self-worth. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.