Hi,
I have been asked to give a talk at my local LUG with that
topic. The audience is fairly technical, and there is going to be a
companion talk "Why FreeBSD" later in the year.
I know why _I_ have decided to go with Linux, and Debian, but
I want to deliver a talk with from a broader perspective than that,
so I want to solicit opinions towards that.
I'll create a talk that shall be under the GPL, and shall be
submitted to the page at http://www.debian.org/events/talks.
I don't intend to spend much time on enumerating the
advantages of a UNBIX-like OS as opposed to Windows;
a) Security, b) flexibility, c) control of features, d) philosophy,
e) cost, f) sped, g) efficiency, h) reliability i) (not having the gui
as an integral part of the OS), j) choices when it comes to
application software, k) no viruses, l) openness and speed of
resolutions of flaws, m) clustering, n) multi-user OS, kinda
cover it.
However, I would indeed want to cover why one would want to
select Linux over the BSD's, and why one would want to select Debian
over the other distributions.
In order to start a dialogue, I have a few questions I would
like to solicit responses to the following (please do not hesitate to
add to the following; these are merely things I have thought off the
top of my head).
1) Do you think that OpenBSD 's repuation as a secure OS is
justified? Does the secure part of OpenBSD provide a useful platform
for your needs? Would SELinux meet or exceed the needs for a
secure OS for you?
2) Is the userland in openBSD too inconvenient to work with? Is the
userland for FreeBSD too inconvenient (as compared to Linux
userland)?
3) Do you think that BSD kernels have better quality than Linux
kernels? Do Linux kernels have more features? Are these features
important for you?
4) Do you think that network performance of the BSD's is better than
that of Linux, including that of the 2.6 kernels? What about NFS
performance?
5) Are upgrades easy for the BSD OS's?
6) Are security fixes available in a timely fashion for the BSD's?
For Linux in general? For Debian?
7) are security patch mechanisms convenient for the BSD's?
For Linux in general? For Debian?
8) Is the hardware support for the BSD's as good that of Linux? Does
NetBSD support more architectures than Linux does? Which of these
architectures is important for you?
9) Does the gentoo configurability deliver significantly better
performance? Is the added step of compilation too much of an
inconvenience?
10) Does the BSD ports system compare favorably to gentoo or sorceror
Linux? Does the ports system always build for you? are upgrades
to individual packages easy, using ports/portage/emerge?
11) Is it easy for you to discover new software when not using
Debian? When using gentoo? When using one of the BSD's?
Feel free to reply to me offline, I'll summarize on list; but
I think that a lively dialogue shall elicit more material for an
evangelizing document ;-)
manoj
http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian
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