On 8/31/06, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/29/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
What does this have to do with what I said about the BSD's kernel design and the technical limitations (or inflexibilities) that the BSD flavors provide? I couldn't care less if Yahoo, Microsoft, or Apple use FreeBSD in *any* of their systems. Heck, I don't even care that Google uses their modified Linux kernel in their P-III farms. What I care about is what system I will be recommending to my clients -- and I don't see how I can possibly sell the fact that Free/Net/OpenBSD support is not as good as Linux support of hardware, and commercially available support. -- Dean Michael C. Berris C/C++ Software Architect Orange and Bronze Software Labs http://3w-agility.blogspot.com/ http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ Mobile: +639287291459 Email: dean [at] orangeandbronze [dot] com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
