From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 22:55:50 2004 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 2B06B16A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from zardoz.rd.imagescape.com (zardoz.rd.imagescape.com [66.100.151.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A5D43D48 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:55:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from puna@imagescape.com) Received: from imagescape.com (puna_net [64.81.224.234]) (authenticated bits=0)i0O6rPkV013109 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:53:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from puna@imagescape.com) Message-ID: <4011C217.9000106@imagescape.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:53:43 +0000 From: Puna User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040122 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200401232340.40104.bsd@elkins.org> <200401232330.26113.racerx@makeworld.com> <40120570.2000700@theatre.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <40120570.2000700@theatre.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Why BSD? 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, 24 Jan 2004 06:55:50 -0000 It's also about quality of the underlying work. On average, Linux base code runs 10% faster under FreeBSD. Linux works toward patches for what everyone wants because it competes for the Windows market share. FreeBSD works toward solutions because it competes with no one. Jonathan T. Sage wrote: > Chris wrote: > >> On Friday 23 January 2004 10:40 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> >>>> This is not a troll. >>>> >>>> I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling >>>> kernels, >>>> updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's >>>> equivilent to my Debian sid. >>>> >>>> I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than Linux? >>>> >>>> Honest question. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Jeff >>>> >> >> Show us your feet! If they are Hobbit-like, it's a Troll *Laffs* >> > > Hah! > > > Honestly though Jeff - You sound like an experienced user, at the risk > of starting the war again, It really boils down to a lot of personal > preference. We use freebsd because we like freebsd, we like the > communitiy, etc, etc, etc. My choice boils down to 2 things. > > /usr/ports/.../... # make install > > and > > /usr/src # make world(ish) > > From the server standpoint, if you know what your doing, given enough > time, you can do pretty much anything you could want to with either. > > ~jon > >