[nycbug-talk] *BSD compairson

[George Georgalis]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:03:53PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:48:03AM -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?
>
>The wiki at http://www.bsdnexus.com has somewhat of a comparision.

I don't see anything there comparing *BSD, the wiki is unavailable.

>I always thought the best explanation was that of Greg Lehey (who is
>almost certainly biased, admittedly, towards FreeBSD) that one should
>(with the exception of DragonFly, at least at this date) look at their
>slogans to see what their emphasis is.  
>
>FreeBSD, the power to serve
>NetBSD, of course it runs NetBSD
>OpenBSD, only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 8
>years!

That's a bit too macro of a perspective for me....

in any event this is all no big. It's not too hard to talk about
software packaging, major release upgrade process, support
and flavor of base OS; which where my primary factors on *BSD
selection. Or, install, software, updates and major release
process for Linux vs BSD.

// George


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