>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Please, I am NOT trying to start a flame war, this is an honest request
> for knowledge.
> >
> > I am curious to know why someone would choose to use BSD rather than
> Linux and vice versa.
>
Although I'd never consider using BSD as a desktop (although a lot of people
appear to be quite happy using fbsd and pc-bsd), I do like using it to make
extremely old/strange hardware useful. I've run netbsd on old 133mhz PPROs
and m68k, mips boxes.. its installation can be extremely tiny, it really
flies! I used to run a dual 133mhz ppro w/256mb of ram as a NFS+Samba server
with netbsd.. obviously it doesn't even come close to replacing a 'real'
fileserver, but it had enough throughput to stream 480p xvids over the
network. So what otherwise would have been a piece of dead, useless
hardware, I was able to throw nbsd on there, have it work out of the box,
and use it for several years.
Additionally, OpenBSD is fantastique.. it's worked out of the box on every
piece of esoteric server hardware I've put it on.. That + 'secure by
default' gcc propolice compiled applications (-fstack-protector-all, -fPIC)
& pf make it a slam dunk for a home all-in-one router/firewall/fileserver.
Spend a day setting it all up, it'll run forever!
That's basically my experience with the *BSDs.. old, strange hardware that
linux dislikes running on probably due to PEBKAC issues. But hey, if given
the choice between putting Win2k server or bsd on an old box, I'd *much*
rather take the open-source unix clone :)
Regards
Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe
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