[ale] Difference between UNIX'es

[Steven Rice]

IT NEVER FAILS!!!

Someone has to say something about *BSD when comparing Linux.   FreeBSD
is nice and i use it as a ftp/www server and OpenBSD on my
firewall/VPN/dailup server.  Would I use it on my workstation or
laptop?  No.  Linux has a wider range of driver support.  Would I tell
someone to start UNIX with *BSD??  Nope, Linux is easier to use.  

Also  80% of Linux is *BSD anyways!!!  Linus just took the *BSD code and
made it better.

Glenn C. Lasher, Jr., thanks for the great post.


Chris Kilroy wrote:
> 
> I agree w/ everything you say in principle, though there is a decent flavor of
> "real" UNIX that you can get for free, FreeBSD.  Which to quote my uncle:
> 
> "every flaming UNIX bigot seems to have on one of their hard drives"
> 
> To qualify that statement, my Uncle is an AIX adminstrator at Duke.
> 
> To qualify my statements, i too have FreeBSD on this very computer!
> 
> But i think Linux rocks
> 
> -Chris
> 
>  wrote:
> 
> > I like this response, it is detailed, and gets deeply into the
> > philosophical matters of difference between Linux and other Unices.  I
> > appreciate the point that Jeff is trying to make about Linux not being a
> > variant/subset/superset of UNIX, however, although the philosophies and
> > actual guts differ, Linux is essentially the product of
> > reverse-engineering UNIX, and I consider it to be a flavour of unix (small
> > u) when put together with all of the GNU goodies.
> >
> > More to the point, however, I think that Kalin might have been more
> > interested in the practical at-the-keyboard differences, in which case, I
> > would be inclined to say that I have used a large array of unices (my geek
> > code contains 'ULAVH+++$' for those who understand geek code) and I find
> > that in actual practice, Linux is the easiest of the OS's to operate, what
> > with the incoropration of command line completion, editing and recall.  I
> > sorely miss these features when working with the DEC^H^H^HCompaq servers
> > at work.  Linux is far superior to any other unix flavour with which I
> > have worked.
> >
> > It is also smaller.  I have been able to make practical use of a cast off
> > '386 with 4MB of proprietary RAM (ergo, upgrades are impossible) and a 200
> > MB HDD.  Not only does it work, it works well, and it is reasonably quick.
> > I use it for a banger box (it is luggable) when making roadtrips, because
> > unlike a laptop, you can't kill the thing!  It only makes sense that a
> > machine of that ruggednes should have an operating system that is equally
> > rugged, n'est-ce pas?
> >
> > It is also the only decent flavour of unix I can afford to have on my home
> > machine.... exclusively.  I don't do Windows.  What other operating system
> > offers itself, with a decent-sized user community, in the under $100
> > range, and thus frees you from Bill the Gates?
> >
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