On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:41 AM, jaseem abid <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "fed up with the decrease in quality of newer Linux >Distros" is a bit >> misleading. >> > > It is a truth whether you are willing to accept or not.
Never felt so :) >>GhostBSD comes with gnome and the quality of gnome is >> decreasing at a very alarming rate. >> > > May be thats why some distro's don't chase every change/feature as > frantically as others. And I have some real respect for them. >> Personally I think no kernels come >> anywhere near linux in performance and portability. >> > > It is a Myth. > Nothing comes anywhere near NetBSD in terms of portability. > > http://www.netbsd.org/ports/history.html Wikipedia says [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux : Para 2 ] >> Linux was originally developed as a free operating system for Intel >> x86-based personal computers. It has since been ported to more computer >> hardware platforms than any other operating system. It is a leading >> operating system on servers and other big iron systems such as mainframe >> computers and supercomputers. More than 90% of today's 500 fastest >> supercomputers run some variant of Linux, including the 10 fastest. Linux >> also runs on embedded systems (devices where the operating system is >> typically built into the firmware and highly tailored to the system) such as >> mobile phones, tablet computers, network routers, televisions and video game >> consoles; the Android system in wide use on mobile devices is built on the >> Linux kernel. > Perfomance is a subjective matter. > You enable some security/reliability feature in Linux and perfomance > drops. You disable the same in BSDs perfomance increases with the > added benefit that the system is more reliable. Are you talking about SELinux patches or something like that? > Perhaps you don't use enough software to hit enough bugs after > upgrades. If you look the arch forums you can see the mess some > 'pacman -Syu' create 1. True. I use a minimal machine. I dont have a 1000 s/w on mine. 2. Most of the time people mess up pacman. Blame the users for that. > Glad to know you are an Arch fan :-) :) AUR, ABS etc make arch really unique and a bliss to use. -- Jaseem Abid http://jaseemabid.github.com _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
