Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

Jon Noack noackjr at compgeek.com
Fri Jan 16 15:58:35 PST 2004


On 1/15/2004 11:15 PM, Scott W wrote:
> Hey all, just wanted to share a link to an interesting article 
> comparing/contrasting *BSD (primarily FreeBSD) and Linux, at
> http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php
> 
> No affiliation, came across it on one of the bsd news sites...as a long 
> time Linux user/admin/developer(pre-1.0 kernel), but dealing with 
> Solaris and other *nixes pre-Linux, it's interesting to see someone else 
> put to words some comments along the line of some of my 'close, but not 
> quite completely thought out' thoughts, when I've tried to explain to 
> co-workers and friends some of the reasons I've come to be less than 
> thrilled with RedHat, yet really like Gentoo and FreeBSD.
> 
> Anyways, happy reading...
> 
> Scott

You can blame me for the Slashdot post -- I first was exposed to FreeBSD 
through Slashdot, so I guess I couldn't help posting it in my desire to 
bring others into the fold.

Matt, let me know if this was unwanted/damaging -- I can help pay for 
bandwidth as penance if needed...

Jon Noack



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