Now I know why I prefer BSD
By Rob Scovell, in
Unix (BSD, Darwin, Linux), posted: 21-Jun-2007 20:34
I've long sort of preferred BSD over Linux.
Here's a site that expresses what I've never really articulated:
BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC.
When I bought my last car, a Japanese import, and thus unregistered in NZ at that point, I vaguely pondered getting some snazzy personlised number plate. I didn't need to. They gave me this:
BSD 585
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Here's a site that expresses what I've never really articulated:
BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC.
When I bought my last car, a Japanese import, and thus unregistered in NZ at that point, I vaguely pondered getting some snazzy personlised number plate. I didn't need to. They gave me this:
BSD 585
Other related posts:
rsync and Time Machine instead of svn for small project
Google Desktop for Mac breaks mdimport/Spotlight
Comment by juha, on 22-Jun-2007 15:09 , user id: 16775)
:)
FreeBSD and OpenBSD user myself.
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Comment by scruss, on 22-Jun-2007 14:41 , user id: )
When I installed OpenBSD 3.9 on my basement server, it felt like installing Linux circa 1996. It asked me things about hardware and partitioning that I didn't need to know. Configuring apache was so much grief that I never completed it, so the machine languished.
A couple of months back I installed Ubuntu LTS on the same machine. It does what I need, and no C-shell either.
Hi Stewart -- yes, Ubuntu rocks. I've recently installed it and I am very impressed. But I still feel more at home in the BSD command line on my Mac and the VoIP servers I deal with. The BSD package management system rocks.
I guess it all comes down to personal preference and what you're doing.
Rob