Come on you gotta give better reasons than this ;) Good non-"flavor of the month" distros. Don't lump the whole base into the same box. Yea there are as many linux distros as there are linux geeks ;)
Take my favorite distro, debian: On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:17 -0600, Pete Davis wrote: > I think I can answer why I like freebsd. > Stability. > Uptime for months at a time. Most of the problems that I have had with > my Freebsd servers have been when I was doing something stupid that I > now know better. Ditto > Also, it may be used completely free of charge, even if it is used > commercially. The licensing of linux flavor of the month is not quite so > clear. ditto > > It is used by MANY large commercial web farms, universities, and other > entities. ditto > > It has widespread use enough that if you find a problem with it, the > solution is probably online somewhere. ditto > In other words, its a more > "mature" operating system than most Linux flavors. thats just flame bait ;) > Just my $0.02. Not trying to create a flame war. ditto Honestly though there are some great reason to use *BSD: 1 Awesome TCP/IP stack, although linux's has gotten better. 2 Ports, up to date software, with very simple commands 3 great firewall(s) ipfw, ipf, and pf (iptables syntax is, bloated at best compared to ipf and pf, I can't speak for ipfw) 4 Simple kernel in BSD, I _do not_ like the fact that 2.6 is still a developing kernel ... thats what 2.7 is supposed to be for. 5 Solid, Stable design. No major changes within the core system. Linux's popularity is also it detriment, not only due to crackers but due to its own internal developers, code splits, weak code, poor audits due to the shear number of people working on it. At its core though it is still secure. The reason I use debian linux, is because of it package management and focus on being stable, secure, and free. I understand how to use it and can work it very well. I will be looking at using OpenBSD or FreeBSD as my firewall system for my new server room. PF + Carp, rocks! Ryan -- Ryan Langseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
