Lars Noodén <lars.noo...@gmail.com> writes: [...]
> I ran into minor graphics problems last year when I tried Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD on a notebook, but other than that it seems good to go. If > I had servers, I would be running it already. Until a few years ago, the Debian-on-FreeBSD project actually still had a web page stating something like "How can you trust Linux when everyone is allowed to change it?", strongly hinting at illegal activities which must surely go along with that. While this page doesn't exist anymore, I'm reasonably certain that the main motivation behind such activities is still "simply cannot trust Linux -- came out of nowhere about twenty years ago and contributors are not (or almost not) vetted beyond looking at their code". I've been working with Linux, both in the form of using it and extending/ changing the code (a few bits of it public but most of them for various proprietary software projects) since 2004 and I consider it an extremly solid piece of code which is developed roughly in line with accepted, current best practices for software development (this refers to the code) and is thus much more accessible to third-party modification than BSD-originated code usually happens to be (disclaimer: Didn't see much of that post-2005), IOW I'm (presently) using Debian because it provides a decent userland for Linux, not despite it runs on this kernel. NB: This is an opinion and not a divine relevation. Other people have formed different opinions on this for reasons which can be regarded as being equally sensible. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
