On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 10:12 +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > One of the Universities in India is going to include teaching the BSD > kernel in their syllabus. > Unfortunately this has been met with quite irrational opposition from > some Linux Junkies ( dirty politics ). Inorder to compile better > report and statistics to defend BSD it would be great if these > informatio can be gathered :-)
"Teaching", with quotes because that ain't teaching but forcing, only a single OS to students is the most zealottish thing one can do. The 'irrational' part is that apparently both the "Linux Junkies" and you as apparently a "BSD Zaelot" want to force their own thing down the throats of the students. Clearly you also have no real answer why your "BSD is much better than that Linux junk". Ever thought of the fact that that depends completely on the application where one is using something? Don't use a spoon (that might not even exist ;) to eat your french^Wliberty fries and don't use a fork to eat your soup... Every OS design has it's specific strong and weak points, students should learn all of them so they can pick themselves what is the best combination available. I suggest you take a look at "Operating System Concepts" from Silberschatz & Galvin: eg: http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/os-book/os7/ This covers all kind of OS's, ranging from the BSD's to Mach and even Windows. There is another excellent OS book(*), but I am a Dinosaur-Junky thus only recommend this one ;) Greets, Jeroen -- * = Operating Systems Design and Implementation by Andrew Tanenbaum et al. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
