From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 07:42:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE24B106564A for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 07:42:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC688FC13 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 07:42:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o227gmvT054072 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 07:42:49 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4B8CC178.5010507@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:42:48 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Thunderbird/3.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <4B8ABAB3.1060003@gamozo.org> <20100228185353.GA4307@apollo.podro.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD Popularity X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:42:55 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/2010 24:02:31, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >>> Tell people how great freebsd is, not how crappy linux is. Remind them >>> that we're all "unix-like", so you're not loosing anything by selecting >>> freebsd for server stuff, you can still use linux as a workstation. >> >> And you could still use freeBSD a desktop or Linux as a server. > > Forgive me for belaboring the obvious, but meanwhile, but Microsoft > servers are far less indicated.. I'm wondering if anyone feels like > opining on MacOSX's Darwin dirty little secret kernel acting as a server. Well, it would probably work pretty well, but what's the benefit you get from using Darwin like that? Without all the rest of Mac OS X, Darwin doesn't stand out from the crowd in any particularly interesting ways. It might be fun to play with, but for a serious workload I'd go FreeBSD. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuMwXgACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyYjwCglHughjoO4P9bPa/wSbtPCBte tK8AnRcxvf9tDBJxE4XOJxTFoIyifn/Z =bsnk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----