On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 08:11:28PM +0530, Avinash Duduskar wrote: > The post screams TROLL, but I'll indulge: > > The Linux TCP/IP stack COUPLED with its stable support for > multi-processor/cores has made it the ideal choice for x86-based >Gig-E > networking equipment. > Ask F5 networks, they've spent a few years migrating from a FreeBSD kernel > to a Linux one for simply that reason: Throughput. >
Don't get me started on this. Both FreeBSD and Linux suck when supporting multi cores. I don't need to ask F5 networks for this. FYI, quite a few major ISPs use FreeBSD like the New York Internet and they are pretty satisfied with it. > JUNOS is BSD based, and the reasons for that have been adequately explained > by an earlier poster. > If you think JUNOS today resembles the fbsd kernel in any way, speak to a > development engineer in Juniper. > What do you mean ? It does resemble FreeBSD kernel in every way, they frequently sponsor people to work on the FreeBSD kernel. Like they did sponsor Jeff Roberson for working on Soft Updates + Journaling. AFAIK they are also sponsoring some guys to make the mips port of FreeBSD stable. Lot of FreeBSD committers work for Juniper. Do you need more explanation? > "Better" is best defined by your environment and needs. > OpenBSD is great for me as a SOHO firewall/router, I love it. > Would I use it in an enterprise, possibly, as long resources who can > maintain it are available? > Would I make a business plan to use it in manufacturing networking > equipment, no, I wouldn't, and don't ask me to get into the why's? Why wouldn't you ? Take a look at this if you need more explanation http://www.spam-cheetah.com/ FYI NetApp and Nokia both of them use FreeBSD for their networking equipment. > I've been part of commercial ventures using these OSs, and have my personal > and business experience form my opinion. > Commercial development is way different from playing with a few machines in > a sandbox. > Oh is it? From my experience most of the commercial companies use Linux because they need vendor support. Give us proper technical reasons for this. Have you tried using FreeBSD or even Linux (seeing your mailer agent i feel it is highly unlikely that you have). Atleast troll sensibly. -- Aditya Sarawgi > Try them all, and use what suits you best. > " A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." > > > - Avinash > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Siju George > Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 3:23 PM > To: BSD users in India > Subject: Re: [BSD-INDIA] Hello from GLUG Meerut > > On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Ashish SHUKLA <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > FYI, there are several things Linux kernel does better, esp. its > > network stack, and there are some things FreeBSD does better. If > > you've weird fantasies about your network setup (including multi-path > > routing), in that case GNU/Linux is the one of the best way to realize > that. > > > > I guess by multi-path routing you mean > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Multipath > > Could you please mention one weird fantsy that Linux does better? > > >> If you guys are planning to java > >>> development and stuff, I would say BSDs are a bad choice. > > > >> kindly elicit on this. > > > > Because no JVM vendor officially supports Java on BSDs, even though > > there is an agreement between FreeBSD Foundation and Sun > > Microsystems[2] regarding Java but it's not clear about the support. But > most of things work just fine. > > > > Hear some thing similar > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120524299726052&w=2 > > Kind Regards > > --Siju > _______________________________________________ > bsd-india mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india > > _______________________________________________ > bsd-india mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india _______________________________________________ bsd-india mailing list [email protected] http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india
