On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:15:00PM +0700, Tracy R Reed wrote:
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>Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
>> On Monday 21 March 2005 08:19 pm, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote:
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>>>Come to the BSD side, my son ...
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>> * No software RAID

I'd not noticed that, bummer. At least a lot of ATA boards and sata
controllers support hw raid now.

>Does it even have a journalled fs? I won't go without one anymore. It
>doesn't have reiser either which is my favorite. It's missing a lot of

understand soft updates before you complain about no journalled fs.
...same problem different solution. Also journaling is being implemented
in DFlyBSD, user space above soft updates, but this is to accommodating
rapid sync multi-homed cluster filesystems (multi-path hd updates, with
short interval global locking).

>commercial support if you ever want to run a commercial application on
>it. No SE Linux or other style mandatory access control is there? I

bsd runlevels? jails? ...more? I'm really no expert. there is some linux
binary support also.

>think it has SMP now although probably not as mature as Linux's SMP
>since it has been around so much longer. We gave up BSD in the very
>early days of MP3 in large part due to lack of SMP support. Less driver

development has been continuous, typically more focus on doing it right
vs getting it done as is with linux. There is NUMA support in FreeBSD
(others?), in fact I think that's where it its best implemented. Fewer
driver support but the higher quality, more expensive devices, are
generally very stable.

>support also. More people are familiar with Linux if you are looking for
>employees. BSD is cool and all but I don't see a whole lot of reasons to
>run it other than for religious or nostalgic reasons. I am glad it
>exists though just in case something really bad happens to Linux
>although I can't really conceive of what that would be that would not
>affect BSD also.

sign of the penguin is clearly on your forehead. and the licensing is
very different, no "enforced open source". 

>> *BSD does have that advantage; the kernel and userland "are BSD."  Not 
>> kernel this and libc that and coreutils something else.
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>What other OS does glibc and coreutils run on if not Linux?

gcc, glibc and lots of gnu software are widely used in BSD. Thanks
to /usr/ports I've been able to automagically build apps and their
dependencies which I couldn't resolve in Linux.

There's gentoo, but I sorta decided on BSD when I'm not running Ubuntu
or Debian.

// George


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