From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 08:10:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA00615 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:10:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (mail.sni.de [192.109.2.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA00589 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:10:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nerv@localhost) by nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA26366 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:09:54 +0100 Message-Id: <199603061609.RAA26366@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD or BSDI To: jerry@border.com (Jerry Kendall) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 17:06:28 MET From: Greg Lehey Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: <96Mar6.090716est.20481-1@janus.border.com>; from "Jerry Kendall" at Mar 6, 96 8:56 am X-Mailer: xmail 2.4 (based on ELM 2.2 PL16) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > >> I guess the dominating factor here is what does the systems programmer >> feel most confortable or if he has any peers that are running the >> same OS which he can benefit from their experiences. > > I may be overstating the obvious here..... How many people are on the > hackers/questions mailing lists???? I'm not too sure I understand what you're saying here. If you're saying "maybe we should take this off the hackers list", I suppose we might find that's a good idea. For the moment, I'm assuming there's a certain interest. > If that is'nt 'peers that are running the same OS which he can benefit > from their experiences'. I don't know what is... > > I have tried BSDI(I work with it), NetBSD(I work with that too), > FreeBSD(at home and I work with it), and have worked with others such as > AIX, Solaris(Also have that at home), and SCO. Don't forget Coherent. > > Of all the above(including Linux, yuk! yuk!) I feel FreeBSD is the best > for ME... I would NOT impose this upon others because their needs are most > likely to be different than mine... I think that if your statement is to be of interest, you need to say why. In my case, I have used most of the systems you mention. I (still just barely) prefer BSD/OS, though I'm constantly revising my viewpoint. 4 years ago, there wasn't a competition. 18 months ago, I was astounded how good FreeBSD had become. Now I'm very impressed. I think BSDI should be scared, but instead they're pricing themselves out of our reaches. My reasons for BSDI: mainly stability and a more rounded system. As I say, that's changing. I don't know nearly enough about NetBSD to venture an opinion, but those of you who speak German should read Martin Cracauer's web pages about his personal choice between FreeBSD and NetBSD. The URL is http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/bsd/cracauer/. He speaks a few home truths, a few out-of-datisms and a few personal opinions which I do not share. He comes to the conclusion that he prefers NetBSD. Before you go flaming him, read the article. It's well put. Greg