[Tfug] FreeBSD vs. Linux

[Predrag Punosevac]

Depends what do you want to do?

An obvious difference that FreeBSD is complete operating system. Linux is  
kernel with the bunch of GNU tools
that depend from distro to disto.

Applications are however mostly common. Apache is apache, exim is exim,  
MPlayer is Mplayer.

BSD was conceived at the University of California Barkley in early  
seventies.
All present flavours of BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD)  
are direct descendant of
the Barkley 4.4BSD

Linux was firstly coded 1993 by Torval Linux while 386BSD a first 386  
version of BSD was in legal troubles with ATT.
Linux clone was based on the mix of V5 and BSD but the part which is POSIX  
compliant should look very similar to FreeBSD.

There are deep philosophical differences.

Is this enough for the beginning? What do you want to compare in  
particular. Desktop features?

Linux works better for Flash, Java, VoIP, web-cam, Linux ndis is better  
and many other things related to WiFi drivers and
video card drivers. For a casual desktop user Linux is probably better  
choice even though PC-BSD, DesktopBSD, RoFreeSBIE are
"desktop" distros of FreeBSD

Cheers,
Predrag


P.S. There are people in Linux gang who claim that their OS is better than  
BSD and they are ready to kill to prove it.
There are people in BSD gang who claim that their OS is better than Linux  
and they are ready to kill to prove it.
In reality both OS are quite good.





On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:42:43 -0700, Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com>  
wrote:

> I don't think that question was trolling, they are merely asking the
> difference...
>
> I was wondering the same thing. Is there a website somewhere that
> concisely describes the pros/cons of each?
>
> Is system admin harder on FreeBSD than Linux? Why?
>
> Predrag Punosevac wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:12:44 -0700, andy <andyjones at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> What's the big difference between FreeBSD & Linux? I've only used Linux
>>> and it seems to get the lion's share of press attention.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
>> This seems like a great topic for a troll but I will bite it anyway.
>>
>>
>> Depends what you want to do? For a casual desktop user NONE if somebody
>> did system administration for you.
>>
>>
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