[nycbug-talk] *BSD compairson

[George Georgalis]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:08:19PM -0500, Okan Demirmen wrote:
>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.

yes. bsd was not chosen for fun.

>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.

right, breed not chosen for fun either. but my basis of choice and
a laymen's explination are two different things. What I'd like to
find are laymen bullet points from which I could borrow to say
that was the biggest factor in my choice... I could spend a month
documenting my basis into laymen terms, maybe someone else already
has?

more in another responce on this thread.

// George


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