> MINIX is created by Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum[1]. Does it need introduction like this to someone who is telling even the full form of MINIX?
> I hope you know about the reputation of Reliance :). I was there customer for > 3 hours, and won't ever dream of going back to them. Do you want to indicate that their choice of systems is wrong then - using JUNOS/JNPR and Solaris/SPARCstations? > > And as far as JUNOS is concerned, its JNPR's creation, IMHO they've chosen > FreeBSD because it already has a good network stack and a base system, and > available under BSD license which means they can extend it and don't ever have > to publish their "so called intellectual property" unless they modify some > part of base OS which is PITA to merge, in that case let community maintain > it, and one less thing to merge. yes. Kireeti Kompella said exact things to me. its a win win. :) > And there exists, Vyatta, which is a FOSS router based off GNU/Linux. vyatta could be based on BSD as well >> For a networker, BSD is THE thing and Linux just tries to learn and mimic. > > 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. Linux is just a kernel so its nice in isolation :) http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~kc5dm/projects/osperf.pdf > If you've citations, or experiences to justify your ranting, then cool, post > them, enlighten us, else I'll consider you as a troll. Neither I rant, nor do i intend to troll. I am a new man on your list and I'll let you know about my experiences slowly. You are an experienced person in both Linux and BSD. A contributor. The creator of this list. I am also creator of something somewhere, so I respect all contributions from all sides :) Mohit Singh ------------------ Today's Imagination is Tomorrow's Innovation Today's Innovation is Tomorrow's Common Sense Today's Common Sense is Tomorrow's Nonsense _______________________________________________ bsd-india mailing list [email protected] http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india
