On 02/28/2013 08:24 PM, Victor Helsing wrote:
From: *Yasha Karant* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
"Modern BSD ... Linux ... Mac ... PCs ... OSx ... all other
things being equal..."
Apples and oranges are not equal in all other respects, but both are
nourishing and enjoyable to those who eat them. Comparisons and
analysis of the virtues and differences between apples and oranges are
best left to those eating them, not to those lecturing about how one is
better than another "all other things being equal."
The systems and technologies I have used in the past 35 years have
rarely been equal in all other respects, and some of my more costly
mistakes are based on choosing the "best" technology or design rather
than the market dominant design that works as well as it needs to.
This may not be the correct forum for this discussion. The issue of a
"market dominant design" depends upon how that dominance is obtained:
whether it is through open "competition" or through monopolistic
marketing and the unearned purchase of intellectual property also for
monopolistic or oligopolistic purposes. In the case of Linux versus
BSD, the market dominance is probably not a bad measure, which is why --
operationally -- I just configured a cfengine server using X86-64 SL6x
rather than a BSD derivative. We were up and running (on the server,
not the full cfengine configuration, although community
licensed-for-free cfengine is installed and working) with SL6x in a few
minutes, whereas I suspect I still would be there with a research
student installing BSD. Nonetheless, in terms of intrinsic OS
architecture, BSD is superior to Linux -- but not so in the practical
world. SL 6x is "good enough".
