begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:15:00PM +0700:
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> Does it even have a journalled fs? I won't go without one anymore. It
> doesn't have reiser either which is my favorite.
Can't say this is a big motivator for me.
> It's missing a lot of
> commercial support if you ever want to run a commercial application on
> it.
For that I have OS X.
> No SE Linux or other style mandatory access control is there? I
BSD seems to have fewer security problems. As pointed elsewhere in
this thread, there's less need.
> think it has SMP now although probably not as mature as Linux's SMP
> since it has been around so much longer.
By this argument, I should jump on the OpenSolaris bandwagon. Linux SMP
support has never been all that great.
> We gave up BSD in the very
> early days of MP3 in large part due to lack of SMP support. Less driver
> support also.
I suspect that's partly due to the GPL "you use it we own it" nature.
> More people are familiar with Linux if you are looking for
> employees.
That's an argument for MSWindows. So I don't accept that line of
reasoning. Employees can surely _learn_.
> 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.
To get out from under the yoke of the FSF?
> 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.
Ten million clueless users insisting on eye-candy over stability, and
wanting to log in as root...
Really, having an alternative -- a healthy alternative -- is good in
and of itself.
> > *BSD does have that advantage; the kernel and userland "are BSD." Not
> > kernel this and libc that and coreutils something else.
>
> What other OS does glibc and coreutils run on if not Linux?
Good question...
*-*-gnu GNU Hurd
i[3456]86-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Intel
m68k-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Motorola 680x0
alpha*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on DEC Alpha
powerpc-*-linux-gnu Linux and MkLinux on PowerPC systems
powerpc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4.19+ on 64-bit PowerPC systems
sparc-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on SPARC
sparc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on UltraSPARC 64-bit
arm-*-none ARM standalone systems
arm-*-linux Linux-2.x on ARM
arm-*-linuxaout Linux-2.x on ARM using a.out binaries
mips*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on MIPS
ia64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on ia64
s390-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on IBM S/390
s390x-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on IBM S/390 64-bit
sh-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Super Hitachi
cris-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on CRIS
x86-64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on x86-64
-Stewart "Wonder if it's still possible to run Linux w/o glibc" Stremler
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