On 6 August 2012 14:12, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote:
> I dunno how to prove that UNIX is better than Linux. > Lot of people simply don't understand it. > And they cannot understand it. You can. You just have to learn it. > As a systems administrator if you set your sight very low at any rate > you cannot understand much because your target itself is so low. Oh, common. What is wrong with being a systems administrator and how is it in anyway inferior to any other IT job? > 1) Linux has bad file systems, it is a fragmented world with many > distros, even kernel is not standard. Many commercial people like Redhat has > spoilt the charm > > 2) There are too many ways to do the same thing. No agreement, too many egos > to > satisfy and the project is being pulled in too many directions as > finding consensus when > there are too many interests is hard. Even in things like epoll or > inotify or udev or whatever > > 3)Linux is not an OS. It uses the GNU toolchain, bash and other > userland from GNU project > and only the kernel is maintained. A distro puts together all these > and does package management > like RPM, DEB etc. > > 4) Linux is immature and a kid compared to UNIX as it does not have > ftp, ssh or make or gcc or > gdb in base install. The very spirit of UNIX and engineer mindset is > lost in trying to make it > everything for everybody > > 5) I can go on and on and on ;) > > Now UNIX is what started it all when Dennis Ritchie and Kernighan > wrote C to write UNIX. > > Those brains had some vision and values behind what an OS should be. > > Today OpenBSD is the only OS that upholds that spirit and resists > rampant commercialism. > > The key difference between Linux and UNIX is that UNIX is one single thing. > > By FreeBSD people know what it is. It is one single thing. There are > not 1000 distros in FreeBSD. > > It is a combination of entire userland , kernel and base system. > > All source code is maintained and audited in a single repository. > > You can get the source code of entire toolchain used to create an OS > including X. > > In short it is the lack of commercial interests and proper team > management, leadership > and focus that creates a good quality OS suitable for engineering purposes. You have left me thoroughly confused half of the above is false and the rest of them are irrelevant. Sorry for being rude. -- Y _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
