Re: [Sheflug] BSD

[Will Newton <will [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 07 Nov 2003 15:59, Netsonic wrote:

> In fact, my own personal view is that BSD is more of a hybrid. In the big
> four, I see windoze and linux side by side at the mo, and BSD firmly above
> both of them. The fact that windoze and linux are relatively easy to use,
> does not necessarily make them better in my opinion, just more popular. Im
> not so sure about solaris at the minute; I've tried the intel version with
> limited success, but from what I have seen on the solaris mailing lists,
> Sun is beginning to develop it properly once again.

Last time I looked, none of the BSDs were anywhere near as good as Linux on 
SMP machines, and the hardware support was a little patchy (although FreeBSD 
is pretty good on some particular manufacturers kit).

BSD is quite fashionable, it's more obscure than Linux, and for a long time 
had a much better TCP/IP stack, but these days I don't think there's much in 
it.

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