Hello,
I hope that you are well.
> Recently there was some chat about "real Unix".
Hmmm ... By real unix I take it you mean the commercial ones ? From Sun, HP,
AIX ?
> Was there any seminal comparative studies between FreeBSD (or even
> NetBSD) and Linux ?
I am quite curious as to what you mean by comparative studies between the two
?
If you are trying to compare two OS's I am sure that a simple google search
would yeild the desired results.
> BSD has been around a long time.
So has Sys V ... I mean that it all started at AT&T, the BSD's are all based
of
the BSD 4.4 Lite I thinks, where as Linux is more like a fussion of SysV and BSD
I guess the best of all worlds ? Sure, why not.
> Why Linux ? Why not BSD ? Drivers ? Platforms and chipsets ?
Why Linux, I guess that its more popular, the BSD's aren't as old as you think
I
am sure that OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD are not that old. I remember that there
was something that Jordan Hubbard was saying about why *BSD never became as
popular as Linux see http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=278 and I am sure its in
there somewhere. BSD I sometimes feel is a purpose build OS, for example FreeBSD
would make an excellent www server, OpenBSD a wonderful firewall, the all have a
wonderful network stack so to speak.
I guess that Linux caught on as it was a ground up OS unlike BSD which gets
its
character from BSD 4.4 Lite. I guess that there are things still left to be
desired for example I undertand that commercial unices have a better UFS file
system, including journaling. Linux and BSD have to make it there I mean in
efficiency, ReiserFS and ext3 are quite promising, NFS is at v3 default while we
in the Linux world have just found this technology with 2.4.x. Actually MS felt
it would be cool to release things such as one of their compiler suites on
FreeBSD as they have a "more" flexible license. That in my opinion is debatable.
Platforms plenty, I regret that RH stopped their Sparc developement at 6.2, it
would have been good, instead Gentoo, SuSE and Debian have prolly got a better
niche in that area.
Drivers ... hmmm ... many manufacturers are waking up and smelling Linux so to
say, people like 3Com, Nvidia, ATI (The do Sun's video cards) etc etc, but
until then it was all done by the vendors such as RedHat et al, I would and
still are. Unlike MS which has the hardware attention, but people like Dell and
Co. are making good efforts.
> Are there anything one can do with Linux which one cannot do with BSD ?
I wouldn't say so. I think that if you can get Linux with a network stack from
the BSD' we are in business. Otherwise they are quite good both of them.
> Does BSD manage kernel memory better and does Linux swap more
> "aggressively" ?
What make you say this ?
> Is there a JVM for BSD ? Does the Apache staple run on BSD ?
Sure it does !! I am don't know if there is a JVM for BSD.
> Questions upon questions...
Google is your buddy :)
> The truth is out there somewhere.
Sure until then lets go back to Linux :) :) :)
Cheers,
Aly.
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