[nycbug-talk] *BSD compairson

[Okan Demirmen]

On Wed 2006.01.25 at 10:48 -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> Folks, most of us have strong opinions about DragonFlyBSD,
> FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (alphebetical, I think there are
> others). But can someone provide an unbiased compairson?
> 
> I know it's a moving target, and I'm not looking for technical
> details, just the big points and features. Looks like I'll be
> migrating some Linux systems to BSD; but exactly why I choose
> one BSD over another is not easy to explain whthout going into
> technical examples.
> 
> Is there a resource that describes the different cultures,
> philosophy, implementation, performance or some other differences?

first, do not fix what is not broken.

as for what BSD to use...the only thing you should worry yourself with
is: is xyzBSD the right tool for the job? go on the basis of the tool
and job - not "just because" this xBSD has X and this yBSD has Y.