Subj : a neat fortune today
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Gerrit Kuehn
Date : Thu Jul 07 2005 09:45 am

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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