Re: *BSD

[Gary <gary-list-silug@mygirlfriday.info>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:23:42PM -0600 or thereabouts, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:52:33PM -0600, Jonathan wrote:
> >   c) You do this for the same reason old time scholars studied Latin.
> >      It's true that Latin is not used any more but many romance 
> >      languages use Latin cognates or derivatives. Knowing Latin (*BSD)
> >      helps you to understand the modern languages (Fedora, Debian) 
> >      better.
> 
> Jonathan makes a very good point here.  I'm convinced that my time
> working on HP-UX, Solaris, SCO OpenServer (ick), etc. (and my time
> playing with V7, Minix, QNX, etc.) has made me a better sysadmin.

In addition, *BSD are known for their server capabilities, and TCP/IP
stacks. The longest uptimes for servers on the web are FreeBSD (source
Netcraft). I have 3 mail/DSN servers out there, using FreeBSD now, and am
very happy with them.. Subjectively, on occasion, I have had some problems
with some distros picking up renewed leases on some routers running DHCP,
with some Linux distros, but have never had a problem with FreeBSD in the
same situation. 

There is also a different philosophy associated with *BSD. No matter what
distro of Linux you are using, it is based on a kernel, with the kernel
being customized for that distro. Of course, you can grab a kernel from
the kernel.org and roll your own or whatever.. In *BSD, the concept is not
on or focused on the kernel, the heart of that distro, but the focus is
treated as an entire OS, with everything related to that OS... and not
based the kernel.  Each release now has over 10,000 ports for that
release. It is interesting. Also, again, subjectively, I find it much
easier to full set up a BSD box, as I always edit by hand rather than a
GUI, in fact, my servers never use a GUI at all, all C/L. Basically, there
is only one file for most things, the /etc/rc.conf file.. 

hee, hee.. after all is said and done, I still have 3 boxes running Linux.

-- 
Gary

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