Jakob,
See below, please.
jakob wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Dennis Eberl wrote:
> > I would like to hear you opinions. I have finished installing Apache, PHP4,
> >
> > Dennis Eberl
>
> In short, FreeBSD is awesome. It's probably the fastest x86 OS I've
> used. The Ports Collection makes installing 3rd party software an
> administator's heaven, no more tinkering with a bazillion required
> packages to install just one thing, and you can customize your compiles
> easily. The BSD style init/configuration I prefer over the SYSV style
> (although the SYSV style is more "scalable"). Seems like FreeBSD hardware
> support is almost as good as Linux's, and in some case better (FreeBSD had
> sane USB support first). Also, for the nostalgic, FreeBSD is a real UNIX,
> based off of the 4.4BSD-lite distro, although you'll occasionally see it
> referred to as "UNIX-like" for legal reasons.
>
> At work, I'm currently migrating our Solaris/SPARC servers over to nice
<---------- SNIP (...but not because I'm not interested :) ---------->
> Downfalls to FreeBSD? Well, there's not much I don't like. About the only
> thing is I wish FreeBSD had a journaling FS, they need one desperately, to
Could you explain what a "journaling" file system is, as well as what (below)
file system "ACLs" and what it is that what it is that affects scalability
when "needs outgrow the 4.4 BSD specs"?
> enter into certain server markets. FS-level ACLs would be cool, too, but I
> havent seen this implemented in a manner i like on UNIX systems. I guess
> one other thing that mildly concerns me is what happens when needs outgrow
> the 4.4BSD specs, but I think this is a non-issue as FreeBSD has grown
> with the market thus far.
>
> Please realize that OpenBSD and NetBSD are fairly different than
> FreeBSD. They share the same original codebase, but a lot of chnages have
> taken place since then. I find FreeBSD to be much faster than OBSD or
> NBSD, but this fits into the ideologies of each of the BSD groups:
>
> FreeBSD: fast, x86, alpha support
> OpenBSD: correctness, and thus security
> NetBSD: portability
>
> jakob
Thanks for the nice summary of the open source BSDs. I guess when I started
getting into Linux was about the time the fellow in Calgary, Alta., had his big
falling out with the FreeBSD crew and went off and did OpenBSD. That turned
me off and the fact that I got RedHat Linux to run 4 UDB DEC Alpha boxes I was
playing with got me into Linus. I hate that basket of snakes in Linux's /etc
that sets up configuration from boot ("If it ain't broke, don't fix it.") I also
find it incredible that no one has shown any interest in tackling the TCP/IP
stack in Linux to make it more "competitive" with BSDish open source O/Ss.
Thank you, Jakob, for your thorough and cogent reply.
Dennis Eberl
