Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 20:49:46 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux "best of breed?" Message-ID: <XFMail.981106204946.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981106133411.00b1a750@genesis.ispace.com>
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On 06-Nov-98 Drew Baxter wrote: > At 01:43 PM 11/6/98 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >>There, there ye have it exactly. Linux is but a kernel surrounded by a chaos >>of distributions in which some good ideas emerge. FreeBSD is an entire >>Operating System effort. Can we even compare the two then? IMHO, yes and no. >>Yes: we can compare the different Linux distributions and the entire FreeBSD >>package. We can also compare the Linux kernel with the FreeBSD kernel. No, we >>cannot compare FreeBSD to Linux without specifying what we're comparing. > > You're right, the packaging makes the OS. Noone cares about the core > (nucleus) but moreso about the surrounding architecture.. Which is probably > why Windows is bundled with a bunch of software generally. I very much care about the nucleus, that's why we also have nuclean members, errr, _core_ members =) >>As I said before, I myself, the guru friend of mine, two associates of mine >>all prefer FreeBSD (*BSD) over Linux for reasons that can only be described >>as real life experience and preference for certain things. > > Friends of mine are all Linux heads, now suddenly they want to switch.. I'm > like "Why?" and they can't answer.. Everyone wants to be somebody I guess. The term lemming applies... ;) >>That's a good thing that Wes started, to accumulate the effort out there. >>Linux users are so keen on quoting where, what and how Linux is used. I only >>know of the picoBSD project, the Whistle InterJet, Pluto Space and the yes.no >>website from Eivind (sorry if that is the Pluto Eivind, still working on my >>Norwegian ;) > > And all those are accomplishments, definitely.. Think this though.. U-Haul > has been around for years (US and Canada only), and they never once put an > ad on TV.. That's a common name in a household, "Well you could get a > U-Haul and move it..".. Sometimes you can generate better and more > publicity from word of mouth then you ever could with these speils in CNet.. I came to FreeBSD by word of mouth... (sees Eivind and Jordan still regretting the day I started posting ;) >>Oh and btw, "Linux is obsolete" -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum > > Obsolete stuff usually never gets updated.. As long as there is revision, > there will never be total obsoletion... Sorry, ye obviously might not know the background, and ye couldn't since it isn't evident in one sentence =) Andrew and Linus were discussing kernels and Linus insisted on using a monolithic kernel anno 1991, Andy simply said that that was obsolete (take a look at Amoebe and Mach). --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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