On Mon Sep 15, 2003 at 02:20:21PM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > BSD would be a kernel just as linux is just a kernel. I bet 100%of the > > companies using BSD and apache-PHP/mySQL on their webserver would not be > > there without mySQL, how good is BSD without any of the programs that > > are packed with it? same thing bud..... > > > > BSD is not a kernel like Linux, it is an OS. > GNU provided the utilities on top of Linux, which make up the entire OS, > BSD is a whole, kernel, system utilities etc all in one, and it doesn't > have distributions. (Open/Free/NetBSD do have common roots, but are > seperate OS's) > > Although it is a complete OS, applications are still another matter, be > they an X-server, Windowmanager or webserver, you have the same choice > there as you do on Linux (Apache, KDE, ...).
About all you can do with BSD "out of the box" without any additional software (corporately funded or otherwise) is run a firewall. You can do the same with GNU/Linux. The argument is irrelevant. No one uses BSD for "just BSD" unless it's academic. They use BSD with Apache, MySQL, whatever. No one just uses the kernel and base utils. If you want to do something with it, chances are quite good that whatever app/server software/whatever you're running on top of your nice free OS was commercially sponsored and/or developed. Comparing Linux to BSD in this way is just plain stupid. For the current argument, there is no difference in terms of how you use the OS (unless, as I said, it's academic). -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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