Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:59:20PM -0800, Jeff Mohler wrote: > > > Not all of us can program..but let me ask this question. > > > > Linux is all volunteer, how did it get so far ahead? > > It isn't. People in the know like FreeBSD as a server which > is where it is mostly targeted - to the professional environment > as apposed to being a playtop.
Linux sure isn't all volunteer*, but it is certainly ahead in terms of available commercial applications, else why would anyone have gone to the trouble of building FreeBSD's Linux API support? * Until Red Hat went to 'EL, all of their technical folks were working full-time on free Linux. It's now less than 100% -- some effort goes into their payware versions -- but still considerably more than 0% last I heard. Then we have Novell supporting SuSE, IBM supporting Yellow Dog, Intel and IBM supporting OSDL (which employs Linus himself, among others), and that's probably not a complete list of even the major commercial players. On the BSD side, we have Apple (Darwin); and maybe a few others although none come to mind immediately. So why is Linux ahead in commercial support? I'm sure I don't have a clue as to most of the factors, but the fact that Linux has somehow managed to avoid schisms in its kernel development can't help but be an advantage. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
