On 8/31/06, Tito Mari Francis Escaño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/31/06, thad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wild guess... perfect port in intel platform :) > Perfect port? Do you mean to say FreeBSD is more stable an OS on this platform? Honestly, I currently find BSD (FreeBSD and OpenBSD) simpler to setup than popular Linux distros. They may be conservative or outright without GUI-based installation but it's very basic and spartan.
Hmmm... Is Linux not a perfect port to the intel platform? It was designed to run first in an Intel, so I don't know what the heck you guys are talking about BSD being more stable on the Intel platform. Spartan or not, that's not actually the point if you're looking at a mission critical solution -- you're looking at a certain degree (a high degree) of confidence that your solution won't conk out, will be easy to extend, easy to maintain, yet robust enough to scale with the administrator. Yeah sure, you can have a vanilla install of any OS on a farm of computers but then when you start talking about more bang for your buck, a spartan software package with very few packages and very little room for improvement (and the release cycles are insanely slow) is not the best way of going about things.
I think the BSD license is a key factor, Apple gets to keep their private changes and improvements to themselves, which brings to mind the debacle over GPLv3. Am I saying that BSD is a better license for bottomline-oriented open source companies over GPL? I believe we won't be here discussing Linux, BSD and/or open source software if not for Free Software foundation and the GNU Project's initiative in the first place.
Now this is just off-topic. We're not even talking about licenses here, and last time I checked this is still a Linux list -- and I don't want to be anal about it, but I am so sue me -- and even trying to introduce BSD into the discussion is just rude. If you want to talk BSD and stroke your own sticks, do it somewhere else. BSD posts are NOT welcome on a Linux list. Please keep your comments on-topic. -- 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
