On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:38, Vincent Danen wrote: > 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.
I'm sorry Vincent, I was just responding to the statement that BSD like Linux is only a kernel. It was a technical answer to the statement that provoked it. That's why I also stated BSD to be only an OS, it is not a complete server/workstation solution without installing stuff like apache or KDE. On a non-technical note, I prefer GNU/Linux because of the GPL, I disagree with the BSD stance to allow proprietary use of its code. > > 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). Indeed, that is about what I meant with my statements. GNU/Linux is the equivalent of e.g. FreeBSD The form an OS, Linux is the equivalent of the Mach kernel in BSD. I want to make clear that my answers where techinical, not a stance in this debate.
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