with the announcement of the features last night the following topics were beaten to death already: Why use FreeBSD? (why not?) FreeBSD is dead! (clearly its not) FreeBSD is not dead! yahoo use freeBSD (nobody cares) FreeBSD vs Linux (ooh flame ware, but then everybody realized that it doesnt matter some people prefer FreeBSD for stability & the fact its all integrated, some people prefer linux because it has lots of flashy features & there are loads of projects to add extra features to it ( but they're not integrated and don't always play well together)!)
please go about your business there's nothing to spam about here!
Yeah, I know, I run Solaris 10 x64 for my MySQL boxes. The crown I'm referring to is umm... the Linux fanboi vs FreeBSD fanboi crown... Besides, administrating Solaris is *not* fun. I know they're getting better, but they need to add the word intuitive to their vocabulary. When I don't have to edit 5 files to change one boot-time IP address and/or hostname, we can talk up how great Solaris is. Nevermind comparing Blastwave to FreeBSD's ports tree. Much respect for their fine grained locking and MP perfo
Yes, solaris is a bitch. Has been that way forever and will probably stay that way for a while. But the argument was about performance and that is the precise and primary reason why so many people still bother with the "ugly bully".
BSD and linux fanboys arguing about "performance crowns" sounds like kart-racers arguing about "who has the fastest car in the world" to me.
It's cute to watch but sometimes I just can't resist...
By the way, Yahoo predominantly uses Linux now, not FreeBSD. They still have FreeBSD stuff in use, but their predominant platform is Linux now. And yes, they still have FreeBSD boxes available for testing/development by the FreeBSD Project/Foundation hosted at Yahoo.
Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.
-- Dave Olson
No need to comment (Score:5, Insightful)
Why use FreeBSD? (why not?)
FreeBSD is dead! (clearly its not)
FreeBSD is not dead!
yahoo use freeBSD (nobody cares)
FreeBSD vs Linux (ooh flame ware, but then everybody realized that it doesnt matter some people prefer FreeBSD for stability & the fact its all integrated, some people prefer linux because it has lots of flashy features & there are loads of projects to add extra features to it ( but they're not integrated and don't always play well together)!)
please go about your business there's nothing to spam about here!
Re:No need to comment (Score:5, Funny)
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Last time I checked most performance crowns were worn by solaris.
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Besides, administrating Solaris is *not* fun. I know they're getting better, but they need to add the word intuitive to their vocabulary. When I don't have to edit 5 files to change one boot-time IP address and/or hostname, we can talk up how great Solaris is. Nevermind comparing Blastwave to FreeBSD's ports tree. Much respect for their fine grained locking and MP perfo
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But the argument was about performance and that is the precise and primary reason why so many
people still bother with the "ugly bully".
BSD and linux fanboys arguing about "performance crowns" sounds like kart-racers
arguing about "who has the fastest car in the world" to me.
It's cute to watch but sometimes I just can't resist...
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