From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 04:09:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A93D106566C for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:09:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from c.kworr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEA88FC16 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkat8 with SMTP id t8so489163bka.13 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:09:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=haVglP7Y5QsMxLNytXI3StI3Of1tIDp1mw12RRyXNoE=; b=ZeT9MFUb+KXPDKuLngppeGLkB0NLTbFTscNyflrN23zhftyp3+3uYtBVT9Wu9IOM7Z 1vEnZNC4Tpof46rBnp6//vO/BUR7TQQAKn71Y1Zwl7VUqBMe+yWqCBcbD56c62pI6J/Z F8rZb/W4nPiy5MOtNmNL5JbfH1szXOsR5VWN8= Received: by 10.204.143.151 with SMTP id v23mr640352bku.65.1314763752123; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from limbo.lan ([195.225.157.86]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a3sm196635bkd.2.2011.08.30.21.09.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E5DB3E5.6070400@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:09:09 +0300 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110829 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mihamina Rakotomandimby References: <4E5941D6.9090106@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4E5BEF65.2010502@gmail.com> <4E5CAD9E.6050903@rktmb.org> In-Reply-To: <4E5CAD9E.6050903@rktmb.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd Current Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:09:14 -0000 30.08.2011 12:30, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 08/29/2011 10:58 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: >> If that page would be updated at least monthly giving fair comparison >> with other os'es it could serve a big pros list for preferring FreeBSD >> over other systems. > > I dont think a monthly update is the good solution. > A per release update is better, as far as releases bring a new set that > could be compared. I don't think all other OS'es will bring new set of features only when FreeBSD is released. > Then, a deep knwoledge of the other OSes is required in order to keep > credit. I think it's a huge amount of work, that should be assigned to > the project itself. > > IMHO, Let's delegate this task to Wikipedia or StackOverflow... I totally disagree. Sites like Wikipedia or StackOverflow serve they own means. When it comes to the point of selecting os you need to show exec one page or even give him one document and searching different bits of information on different sites wouldn't be pretty. Besides it's much better to have control over this page to make sure it's fresh and current. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.