On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:50:42AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Mark Blackman <m...@exonetric.com> wrote: >> > There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really >> > aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that >> > arena >> > is entirely coincidental. >> >> That tends to be my perspective. Linux tends to be more useful on >> laptops and desktops, where up-to-the-minute hardware support is >> needed. For servers, where stability is important, I tend to prefer >> BSD, all other things being equal. > > Weird. I guess maybe my excellent experience of using FreeBSD on my > ThinkPad is "wrong", and so is my experience of various Linux > distributions having more maintenance issues than FreeBSD on similar > hardware, and I should stop.
No, it´s not wrong .. just keep buying ThinkPads .. most devels use them and hence .. they get more attention. > >> >> Besides the mindshare issue that's been mentioned, part of the problem >> here is the balkanized nature of open source licenses, too. Linux >> driver code is useless to FreeBSD developers because the GPL isn't >> compatible with the BSD license. > > I don't think that's the case. Maybe such drivers cannot be integrated > directly with the base system without licensing issues, but it can > certainly be distributed and installed when appropriate. It is, in fact, > for this reason of compatibility that FreeBSD has had ZFS support where > Linux-based systems have not. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
