On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:02 PM, David Njuki <njukey@gmail.com> wrote:
Honestly speaking, I don't understand the Linux development system. With
FreeBSD, you have a group of people who are responsible for the Operating System, the utilities and the additional software (wether ports or packages). With Linux, you have a group of people who are responsible for the Operating System and utilities. And a group of people who are responsible for the additional software.... And a group of people who are distributing it..... And they all are different people..... And last but not least... which distribution should I take? If I choose Red Hat or Debian or Suse, what are the consequences for later? Can I run the program compiled with Debian Linux under Red Hat or Suse. Can I even get it compiled?
I'm not saying that Linux is bad, evil or something. There are just a lot of things I don't understand or agree with regarding it. Well, the same thing applies to other operating systems. Closed and Open.
Hi Washington,
I see how religious you are about xBSD :) , all in all the Linux development system isn't as complex just like Joseph pointed out in his answer to your post. I use both Linux and xBSD in my everyday sysadmin work. Over time in my opinion I have preferred using the xBSD for enterprise server tasks, the Linux equivalent for such that I use and would recommend is RedHat Enterprise(which comes at a cost), I use most of the other Linux distros for Desktop because of the regular distribution cycles (The like of Ubuntu and Fedora which are released every six months) and the updated hardware support.
Frankly BSD has not impressed me on the Desktop front, I have tried PCBSD and DesktopBSD and they did not do it for me.
David,
I agree entirely with your observation on the Desktop front. Linux (almost all of them that are not commercial) seem to come with support for almost every hardware, much like Windows does:) I believe that is why most new users to the Unix world will be found to run some Linux distro (and they believe that is the only Unix until they hear of the likes of *BSD, Solaris, HP-UX). BTW, and this is OT - aren't there HP-UX Administrators lurking around somewhere? There is money to be made if one is! -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube