On 7/12/06, Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Thankyou so much for the reply Jeroen :-)
Nothing like that is happenning here.
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.
I am not a BSD zealot. I use what is best for a porpose in my personal
life as well as in my work place. Perhaps my words in the first mail
gave you taht kind of impression. Sorry for that :-)
Clearly you also have no real answer why your
"BSD is much better than that Linux junk".
That is not the point. I am just trying to gather some real facts (
for a friend of mine actually ) so that is can be organized in to a
good Document. With some real life statistics. And that person is a
BSD developer and knows much more than I know about BSDs. Just helping
my friend the best way I can thats all.
Ever thought of the fact that
that depends completely on the application where one is using something?
Why would you assume that I never thought of that fact buddy?
I use OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X etc for differrent
purposes here. Again I am sorry if my wordings in the first mail gave
you a wrong impression.
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...
good idea :-) hahaha!
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/
Thankyou so much for your info. Actually Tedu had recommended this
book to me a few months back when I asked the list rsources to
undersand more about the "memory protection" thing's discussion :-)
I have that book and I have read it. And still keep reading it.
Again I am not looking for informaion on how BSD is better than Linux.
To make it clear it is not a BSD vs Linux fight.
It is a case when some people fight against BSD with no reason to do
what so ever ( dirty politics )
Thankyou so much for your long mail buddy :-)
Kind Regards
Siju
