On Mar 23, 2005, at 2:15 AM, Tracy R Reed wrote:
* No software RAID
Does it even have a journalled fs?
Softupdates has been the default for *years* on FreeBSD. It does the same thing as journaling, but implements it slightly differently.
It doesn't have reiser either which is my favorite.
IIRC, ReiserFS is GPL only. Personally, I can't stand ResierFS. If I must use journaling on Linux I will use XFS or JFS (the SGI and IBM implemented filesystems).
It's missing a lot of commercial support if you ever want to run a commercial application on it.
Linux emulation, if required. Most don't require it anymore, though.
No SE Linux or other style mandatory access control is there?
Dunno. FreeBSD got jails around 4.8? However, it is not as OS intensive as SE Linux (this is good or bad depending upon your point of view).
I think it has SMP now although probably not as mature as Linux's SMP since it has been around so much longer.
The FreeBSD folks now have a very fine grained SMP throughout the kernel. This was *hard*. I am looking forward to seeing dual and quad Opteron systems with FreeBSD vs. Linux benchmarks. The TCP stack and disk drivers *should* kick the tar out of Linux in scaling. We'll have to see if the implementation matches the potential.
We gave up BSD in the very early days of MP3 in large part due to lack of SMP support.
I could see that.
Less driver support also.
Read: binary-only drivers. Your point is certainly, correct, though. Also, BSD cannot absorb GPL code while GPL can absorb BSD code.
More people are familiar with Linux if you are looking for employees.
By that argument, I should be using Windows.
To be blunt, any employee that I would trust on a Linux system is going to be sharp enough for Linux, *BSD, or Solaris. I don't hire monkeys.
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.
There are some technical differences: VM stability and implementation(malloc handling), NFS implementation, GEOM (as I mentioned), security attitude (OpenBSD).
Then there are the religious reasons: BSD vs. GPL, steering committee vs. Linus, etc.
Personally, I don't need to proselytize. If you are happy with Linux, that's fine. However, when you actually begin to feel the deficiencies in Linux, I will point out that the *BSD have a *different* set of deficiencies and that you might want to look around.
-a
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