[Tfug] FreeBSD vs. Linux

[andy]

Thanks Predrag, it was no troll, I'm just a fairly new Linux user and
have heard of BSD, but didn't really know what differentiated it from
Linux beside being another Unix variation.

Besides, this politics discussion is way past the point of being boring.

I was assuming that Linux was more for the casual user and BSD catered
to the more technical crowd or hardcore Unix folks. It sounds like from
your quick rundown that is true.

What did you mean by BSD being a complete operating system vs. Linux
plus GNU tools? Not sure if I understand.

Andy

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 22:10 -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> 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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