Understanding differences between Linux and FreeBSD

[Brad Mitchell]

If you run RedHat Linux or other open source flavor... you should read this article. I think it does a good job of showing some of the differences between the two platforms if you didn't already know them. I'm sure lots of you brilliant system admins know these things... but I know that many of you probably assumed that these operating systems were only marginally different.

If you ask me, there doesn't appear to be anything marginal about this:

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=580&page=all

Cheers,

Brad

[XXXManager]

To save people here time...
This article is boring! (sorry if the author sees it)
In a full 1000 lines it basically says:
Linux = many distributions (redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc...) under GPL (changes must be published to public)
FreeBSD = one (sort of) distribution under BSD (Berkley)
Linux most populars use RPM while BSD uses packages
BSD uses some up-to-date mechanism while he forgot to mention RedHat also has that think
Basically he wanted to say he digs BSD.
good for him. Don't waste time unless you are geeks

[some_idiot]

As a dedicated BSD user since 2.2.4 and a sometimes
Linux user ...and admin on both, I don't need to read
it.

XXX vs XXX is always a religious battle.

FreeBSD = Unix ... standards and all
Linux = Something close ... loose standards and all

Use what you know and what works for you. The both
carry the same basic design concepts and benchmarking
them will never tell you which is the absolute winner
with real surfer traffic.

The arguement of single distro and single ports
repository is going out the window with Lindows as
it matures (yes pun intended).

A better article would be "Mac OS/X vs Linux... what
happens when you give someone too much power
under a fancy window manager".

[Brad Mitchell]

Geeks

I was just posting a link to an article that *I* enjoyed. I don't know who the fuck wrote it.

[Phil21]

Yeah, just another BSD fanboy. Move along.

apt-get IMO is in most ways (not all) superior to any "package management" on *BSD.

In the end though, it's all preference and administrator skill. Go with whatever you're more comfortable with, and know the most about. One will NOT outperform the other by any significant margin doing lowly tasks such as webserving.

On a side note, the BSD zealotism is getting a bit much lately IMO. It's like Linux zealotism back a few years. Ugh.

Everything has it's place, in this case there really shouldn't be much in-fighting. They both do extremely well in capable hands.

And no, I'm not going to get into the points this guy had more or less 100% wrong. It's just not worth it.

-Phil