[NTLUG:Discuss] Better than linux?

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com writes:
- My response to just about every paragraph was a "yes, but...", and
- I certainly disagree with the overall conclusion .  There's a very
- good reason why linux is flying past all other OS's.  Every OS is
- like a balance between extended functionality and extended debugging.
- The advantage of linux - not shared by any other OS - is that new
- code is more rapidly fixed because it's open to the whole community
- of users.  

	How is this different from the (open|free|net)BSD? Don't
forget that much of the original networking code for Linux came
from BSD (and I believe that most of the userland networking
code is still BSD derived.)

-                                                        I wish I
- could say "we should get along and work together" but without
- opening their code, what is the point?

	I'm curious..  Why isn't the code to (open|free|net)BSD
`open'? The last I checked (about 40 minuts ago, when I picked up
parts of the NetBSD tree), I could pick up the entire source tree
for all three from anoncvs.(open|free|net)bsd.org.

	I will be the first to admit that there are several (ego
based) political differences between the BSD camps. (and don't
try to tell me the same isn't true of the numerous Linux
distributions.. :-) Even given their differences, they share a
huge amount of knowledge and code amongst themselves, Linux and
the public at large.

	To bare my biases:  I have many times more *BSD systems
than I have Linux systems, running on a wide variety of
platforms.

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Eric Schnoebelen		eric at cirr.com		http://www.cirr.com
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