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Like choosing Debian over Red Hat, or Solaris over Linux, some people just prefer the way it does things. You can geek out on millisecond benchmark performance
by sivers 17y ago
Like choosing Debian over Red Hat, or Solaris over Linux, some people just prefer the way it does things.
You can geek out on millisecond benchmark performance comparisons with FreeBSD vs certain Linux kernels, but really it comes down to preference.
I love its design and have been using it on all my servers (and often my home/dev/laptop) since 1998. But that's just me. No need to try to convince you to do the same.
http://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd+linux+comparison http://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd+linux+comparison
- morphir 17y agoThat analogy is wrong. If you read what the other ones said, you will see that the 'linux is just a kernel' vs 'freebsd is a entire Operating System' is more correct. BSD provides the userland tools and thus supports the entire OS experience. Linux just makes the hardware available to the user. This also depends on how one defines the word Operating System. I remember linus was stating in the documentary 'OS Revolution' that "your never supposed to see a operating system - no one never uses a operating system, people use programs, the operating system makes it easy for the programs to access the computers resources" reference interview at 2,20 min. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409&ei=PjsOS-m0D82E-QarsvzQDg&q=os+revolution&client=firefox-a# http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409&...