On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote: >>Watching the mailing list, it -seems- like BSDs are more prevalent on the >>soekris platforms then Linux. I've only ever used Linux ( a custom >>Buildroot build and hand-rolled kernel ). I am NOT trying to troll, and I >>know this is a technical mailing list, but I'm really curious why those that >>chose BSDs chose them? Without being a BSD user, I'm hoping to get some >>insight into what I don't know. > > Well, _since_ you asked.... > > I'm a BSD user from waaay back; I cut my teeth on SunOS 4 in college, and > I ran a actual BSD 4.3 system on a derelict VAX 11/750 just for the pure > hell of it. I was around when 386BSD was forming, and for various reasons > I ended up as a NetBSD user (which I will sadly admit puts me in a minority > of a minority).
(...) I've had a nearly similar Unix past, and I'm using FreeBSD on Soekris out of habit as well, but mostly out of uniformity. I'm also using various Linux distros, Solaris etc... in other settings and various CPU arches, but my main workhorses all run FreeBSD, so it is easier from an admin point of view to put FreeBSD on my Soekris boxes too. And regarding NetBSD's kernel code base, I totally agree: it's definitely the cleanest in terms of MI/MD separation. Very nice code. But OpenBSD isn't bad either: using it here on old Sunblade desktops because they're the only ones besides Solaris 10 to support the XVR-600 and XVR-1200 (WildcatFB) framebuffers... but that's getting off topic. ;-) -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
