On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 08:45:39PM -0800, Mark C. Ballew wrote: > When someone posts a Reno job looking for OpenBSD admins, I'll have a > heart attack.
I'd have to take dibs on the defibrillator right after you. I've had exactly *two* clients in the past 10 years specifically request OpenBSD, although I've managed to convince a few others that it was the right choice for certain tasks. I still think *BSD integrates core utilities better than Linux due to the development model, and that many of the commercial Linux distros over-tweak some things at the cost of compatibility (e.g. good luck getting OPIE to work on Red Hat). Overall, though, I think Linux is the clear winner when it comes to variety and bleeding-edge stuff. For example, whether or not one agrees that softupdates >= journaling, to the best of my knowledge none of the BSDs offer the same wealth of filesystem choices as Linux. Anyway, this wasn't meant to be an anti-BSD flame; I use it here on several bastion hosts. I just think more people would use *BSD if the BSD distros made a more compelling case for what sets them apart from the other BSDs, and what their real niches are. -- Find my Techno-Geek Journal at http://www.codegnome.org/geeklog/ _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
