On 8/29/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
no flames meant, i don't want to start a distro war again :D, but why don't you ask yahoo or microsoft's hotmail as to why are they still using FreeBSD? or why apple used FreeBSD for their latest mac OS.
just my 2 cents worth.
On 8/29/06, Tito Mari Francis Escaño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe you can try the Gentoo or Slackware for really stripped down
> Linux installations. If you're open to trying other free OSes, how
> about trying out BSDs? Hope this helps.
Mission Critical -- I need it set up fast, and I need it to be
administered easily. Slackware is neither and Gentoo just takes too
much time to maintain.
BSD's seem alright, but convincing a client that the support they will
get (even if they want to pay) is nonexistent is just too hard to
sell. And programming for a Free/Net/OpenBSD is just plain insane
especially if you're looking at using third party libraries (of which
not much are ported over to the BSD's).
And the BSD kernel design is something left for me to desire -- Linux
the kernel is just much better at doing things (and supporting
hardware) like scheduling, security, modularity, and userland
management.
no flames meant, i don't want to start a distro war again :D, but why don't you ask yahoo or microsoft's hotmail as to why are they still using FreeBSD? or why apple used FreeBSD for their latest mac OS.
just my 2 cents worth.
Maybe if there was an "enterprise grade" BSD with all the support
infrastructure around it, I might consider it. I for one will use a
BSD mainly for the edge network services -- because it's so minimal,
and I don't want to touch it and even consider it for the core
services/solutions that I/we are developing. They're great especially
if you just want to do the network stuff (like DHCP, SMTP, HTTP, etc.)
but anything significantly complex like a server you are writing from
the ground up using third party libraries for XML parsing, for
distributed computing (CORBA/RPC), for device level binding (kernel
daemons, monitors, etc.), and maybe 3D graphics rendering (Maya,
Blender on the Server, etc.), I won't trust the BSD's yet.
I might get an xserve with Mac OSX (Mac), and that might be an excuse
to use a BSD (albeit unintentionally), but what I want to get is the
support so that the client doesn't get left hanging when things go
wrong with the hardware/OS -- because I'd rather be doing something
else and not worry about the administration and support of the
infrastructure. Besides, their server boxes are way cool and the UI
way funky for me to pass up -- but when it's "mission critical", I
will use Linux or the enterprise Unixes.
Maybe Debian doesn't have the same support infrastructure that RHEL
and SuSE have, but the community around it (and the community involved
in the development of the whole distribution) serve as the best
support facility around. I can even recommend people here in the
Philippines (QSR) who can support the Debian based installations for a
fee if a client wants it that bad.
Thanks for the suggestions. :)
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