Just like Siju said, for people who're so free to the FOSS world and want to know what BSDs are, here's a minor intro to FreeBSD: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-freebsd/
Meanwhile, Siju can elaborate on the following point in the above article: >> The more well-known journaling file systems current on Linux, like Reiser >> File >>System (Reiser FS) and Journaling File System (JFS), are not available on >>FreeBSD, mostly for security reasons. >> > you will know that Unix is not an operating system ( though UNIX is an > AT & T trademark ) rather a family of very many Operating Systems, not Like I said, ancestry is irrelevant. Anybody differing with me can tell me why. iOS/RIM OS etc never had such a 40+ yr ancestry but people are going gaga over its functionality. Anyway, enlighten me otherwise. > > Most People in India know about Intel's and AMD's x86/amd64/x86_64 > architectures/platforms and think that is the whole world of computers > ( If they purchased a Mac few years back they might have got a "Power > PC" machine but these days Macs come on Intel Platform ). Nothing > could be far from truth. > I agree with you regarding how Intel sucks. I spent months trying to acquire a discarded Mac G5 dual-PPC machine. The effort never paid! But I should respectfully disagree with you about supporting exotic platforms, which is a waste of manpower, and could be concluded as nothing less than a hobby and time-pass. Distros like Debian taking out support for outdated hardware like vanilla 386 chips is a good example. Would anyone care if a huge improvement was made to Linux/BSD running on System/370? Hardly. Improvements should and must be made to systems that people are actually running, and would benefit maximum people. > There are a lot of Differrent Hardware Platforms to start from basics. > An example we all have heard can be what is Anivar is using now. > Loongson system seem to be very attractive. Had read a lot of articles written by Knuth about advantages of MIPS (he being a co-founder of the architecture?). Too sad, its not catching up in India. > > http://www.netbsd.org/ports/ > VAX? rofl! > On a broad basis you can say it **supports 57 differrent Hardware Platforms**. How can the number of platforms can be directly proportional to the quality of the operating system/kernel? > > You tell me with proof How many hardware platforms Linux Support? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_supported_architectures Keep that smile :) > 10) Is it right to sign an NDA with a vendor inorder to support their > hardware i one's OS? But yes, there IS an issue with writing a GPL-driver after signing NDA. Reading more about it. > 11) The problems caused by signing an NDA and which community? BSD or > LInux does that I still don't get why BSDs are whining when Linux get a GPL'd driver (at whatever cost) which they couldn't achieve in their so called 40-years+ of "ancestry"?? > It would be great if you can also read on some of these things so you > don't have to fall into the trap of being indoctrinated by a single > induvidal :-) > Whatever links you post are from a pro-BSD or BSD sites. People post differentiated opinions elsewhere. Pro-Linux/Pro-GNU sites are bashing BSDs. Half-empty-half-full glass? Caveat User! > The Intel platform we use commonly are some times considered buggy and > is totally discarded for certain uses. Agreed with you 200% _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
