BSD Leading the Way in Cooperation 2
Greg Lehey, author of several books, including The Complete FreeBSD, and FreeBSD core member, writes about the value of cooperation, not just with other BSDs, but with Linux as well, in this month's Daemon's Advocate in Daemon News.
Re:This was a non-troll post. (Score:1)
Ha ha ha. Somebody had to :-)
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It's nice to work together (Score:1)
Very interesting article on the state of the BSD community. I jumped into the BSDs (and unix in general) with BSD/OS when I took over the SysAdmin duties at the ISP where I work. Because of this I tend to lean on the side of the BSDs over Linux.
That said, I think it's good for everyone involved to cooperate on one level or another. As a community, the BSD users are beginning to see beyond Free, Open and Net to BSD as a whole. Most users I see are looking past the animosity that was stirred up between core members of the different BSDs and are trying to work together to promote BSD in general. Take a look at the Open Packages Project [openpackages.org] that is attempting to create a unified package system for the BSD (and Solaris and Linux).
The comments about the GNU/Linux community are interesting as well. I dislike those who go about spouting the mantra "It's GNU so it must be better" and then bash every open source project that not GNU. (Many of them (conveiniently (sp?)) forget that Apache is not GNU.) This can drive people away from open source because they don't want to grouped with such people.
The good news is, many people from both Linux and BSD are realizing that they can work together to improve their OS. The cooperation between camps can only help. Linux and BSD will become more equal (in performance, apps, etc.) in general and admins (and users) will be able to choose the OS that fits their needs best. For example, a user won't have to pick an OS just because the app is not supported on the OS they want to use.
Did I actually get a first post?
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