Carlo Sogono wrote:
Interesting article here.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html
Your thoughts?
despite the fact that linux-kernel's drivers are sometimes buggy,
especially during the first stages of development (i can remember that i
had to boot win95 and start the wintv-application provided by hauppage
before i was able to use linux-hauppage-drivers and xawtv) and maybe the
quality of the kernel-code is not always at level that someone expects
to be for an OS, linux is really stable and provides for me a lot more
features and a better hardware support than any BSD.
furthermore, the distributions a'la debian, redhat, mandrino (?), ...
provides loads of packages ready to install as a binary. ok, its nice
that *bsd comes with all the tools needed, but from my experience most
of the tools are not as powerful as the gnu or other opensource-versions.
personally, i like bsd-like operating systems for servers and the
company i am working for runs linux, solaris, and bsd. the only OSes for
desktops for me are linux and mac os x. maybe also win2k (sorry, it is
company-policy).
the real problem - from a java-developers view - is the support for java
5 and the certification of some companies like bea or oracle to get
support for bsd. so, as long there is no commercial support from these
companies, bsd is not of any interest for me.
so, as a user of linux, i dont feel as a loser.
anyway, whatever some guys says about linux and also about bsd, win, ...
i will use the OS that fits the criteria best, regardles the FUD of a
de radt or a ballmer or a bill gates.
just my 2 euro-cents, gottfried
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