"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote:
> YZ>> I've been using FreeBSD for a couple of years now. IMO, its strong
> YZ>> points (compared to Linux) are:
>
> I'm a bit surprised how many myphologized is a mind of an average
> advocate. What you say is "standard 'Linux sucks' advocate kit". As most
> "standart advocate kits", it's built on myths that or were true 5 years
> ago, or were always false.
Sheesh, a question was asked and answered. No need to jump down anybody's
throat.
> YZ>> . The development cycle contains all major OS parts. This means that when
> YZ>> you say FreeBSD 3.2, you are refering not only to a kernel, but also to
> YZ>> libc and most system binaries (such as ln, awk, grep etc).
>
> I know yet another system which has almost all system binaries intergated
> into the OS. I do not like that OS.
Solaris?
> Developing an OS and developing awk is
> different things.
I believe his point was that the kernel as a separate entity means very little.
In most OS development models, development of the kernel and userland
utilities are tightly coupled. This isn't the case in Linux. Linus Torvalds
ONLY maintains the kernel.
What was your point?
> YZ>> . Its UFS is more stable than ext2fs which optimizes like hell. See SGI's
> YZ>> initiative of donating XFS sources to Linux.
>
> Which one does optimize?
Ext2fs uses asynchronous writes for metadata updates. This makes it very fast,
but at expense of reliability (in case of a crash).
> And why donating XFS means UFS is better than
> ext2? I think I've lost your point here.
It means that to SGI's mind, XFS is better than ext2fs. SGI is marketing XFS
as fast, reliable, and scalable. Therefore SGI believes that ext2fs is missing
one or more of these features.
> P.S. Could we bury this holy war now? If you want to promote BSD, get
> beyond pack of myths and *promote* it, not demote Linux. Saying "X is
> worse" is not the same as saying "Y is better". Think positive.
Yes, exactly the approach Linux advocates use when advocating Linux as an
alternative to Microsoft OSes.
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