[Ma-linux] BSD vs Linux

[Maxwell Spangler]

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 10:43 -0500, Sam wrote:
> Thanks to you and the others who responded to my request.  I had hoped 
> that I could get a reliable reference to several papers or articles by 
> people who had spent some time looking at the overall characteristics of 
> FreeBSD compared with those of the best of Linux.  Perhaps that hope was 
> somewhat optimistic.   I confess that a search through the relevant 
> literature did not make me believe that such papers might be readily 
> available.

(Late to this thread)

If you have specific needs, tell us what they are and maybe we can help
you meet them with Linux or point you in another direction.

But as far as I'm concerned, I'm going to be on Linux for a very long
time because it is not constricting compared to my other choices.  After
many years I'm still on Fedora (now 9) and find that the base
distribution combined with third-party rpm repositories allows me to do
pretty much whatever I want.  I can't see that I'm really missing out in
any way with one Linux over another, but I can definitely see advantages
of Linux over BSD, Mac OS X and Windows.

Mostly, I am in control.

-- 
Maxwell Spangler
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA