Mohit, please share ur experiences of using freeBSD and why u chose it over linux.
First of all, I thank you for considering my response. This is a possibly sensitive topic in a Linuxer list and i'll write facts only, which anybody can verify. Please read this post till last line and DO use FreeBSD even inside VM at least once. Linux gained popularity because the BSD guys were busy in lawsuits of UNIX world in 1991 so Linux got no competition in FOSS arena. Linux started its journey from home PC and BSD had to come down to the home PC. Linux is not our stepbrother but yet another code which behaves UNIXly and also tries to be POSIXly correct. Today's FreeBSD and GNU/Linux Distro dont appear differently. All modern applications are written for both BSD and Linux, and POSIX is the fevicol in UNIX world (www.unix.org) www.freebsd.org is the sadar bazar of BSD folks. I used FreeBSD implicitly through JUNOS OS of Juniper Routers at Reliance Communications. BSD license does not need your effort for communicating your modifications in the software to the public, so product driven companies like Juniper find it fit for them. If you are a serious UNIX guy and want to see even the old code of W Richard Stevens books working for you, FreeBSD is THE thing for you. Want to see THE TCP/IP code running the Internet switches and routers for more than two decades? BSD TCP/IP code is the answer. Linux TCP/IP was written from scratch and even the carrier grade linux is not the first choice of telcos - its a solaris world out there in general. Many people may come up with new alternatives to that - like HP-UX or li...@hp or something. Linux became ubiquitous through its driver base and BSD has to do a lot in this regard - that is a BIG opportunity for BSD guys. I personally like things like POSIX and KDE which make the inter-*x-like -system differences minimal. Only issue is the absence of compatibility layer among BSD and Linux worlds. Right now people are investing on writing BSD ports of existing Linux/other *x applications and that list is ever increasing. In the coming times, we expect to see an abstraction layer VM or something in all *X and your favorite *X/*X clone will run on top of that, without caring about absolutely anything from drivers to applications. Linus Torvalds is not ready for direct comparison with BSD, he considers his baby as the best. Some people have done the comparative study and found BSD better in overall system responses. Regards, Mohit Singh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
