From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 5 10:23:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F6937B61A for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:23:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from bastet.rfc822.net (bastet.rfc822.net [64.81.113.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D45E43EA9 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:23:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pde@bastet.rfc822.net) Received: by bastet.rfc822.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6AF6F9F1B1; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:25:19 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:25:19 -0600 From: Pete Ehlke To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Daemon's Advocate article Message-ID: <20021205182519.GA84996@rfc822.net> References: <20021205133147.GB52021@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021205133147.GB52021@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:31:47PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > BSD has long enjoyed performance and stability advantages over Linux, but as > Grog remarks in the recent DA article, Linux is catching up. > > Are there any areas where BSD will more than likely *always* have an > advantage over Linux? I know licensing is one, and with the current global > economy downturn, that could become more significant in the IT sector. But > other than that, what do we have that inherently holds a sustainable lead > over Linux? Or will it simply always be a case of 'BSD is different, but > not necessarily better?' http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4vcm60%24ifn%40sol.ctr.columbia.edu&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message