Hello Maurice!

06 Jul 05 11:51, Maurice Kinal wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 GK>> What kind of freedom does Linux provide that FreeBSD doesn't?

 MK> From my perspective I'd say the availabilty of much more Opensource 
 MK> development in the Linux arena then in the BSD world.  Not to say 
 MK> that there isn't any going on in BSD but there certainly appears to 
 MK> be much more in Linux when looking around the world.

Development on application based level is pretty much the same, since every
decent piece of software that can be compiled on Linux can also be compiled
on BSD. So you're talking about the kernel?
Well, it's specifically the style of kernel (and userspace tool)
development that drove me away from Linux.

 MK> I use Slackware primarily but lately have been playing around with 
 MK> the ttylinux, minimal Linux concept.  I really like and enjoy that 
 MK> but it isn't what I'd call user-friendly.  Slackware is a very good 
 MK> choice methinks.

I've been using Slackware, Suse, Caldera (yes! :-), Debian, RedHat and
Gentoo during the past years. Indepentent of the distribution I encountered
lots of imho unneccessary problems that took huge amounts of time to fix,
mostly when doing updates. Having understood where those problems
originated, I came to the conclusion that this is an effect of the
development style Linux (mainly the kernel, and sometimes the userland
tools, too) uses.
Well, I'm running FreeBSD and OpenBSD on most machines now. Some are
constrained to Linux due to driver issues - I stick with Gentoo on them,
because the management of the system is very BSD-like.


Regards,
Gerrit

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