[GEM Development] The state of the BSD art

[Davey Brain]

Liam Proven wrote thusly:
> Mainly for Shane but it might be of interest to others.
> 
> Some people wonder why Linux is so much more popular than xBSD. Well, 
> here's an experienced Linux user's account of trying to move to FreeBSD - 
> the most polished, mature and friendly of the open source BSDs. (BSD/os 
> isn't open source or free and Apple Darwin is only the userland of BSD - 
> it's a totally different kernel, based on Mach. So it's not really BSD at 
> all.)
> 
> http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=267&mode=&order
> =0&thold=0
> 
> <http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=267&mode=
> &order=0&thold=0>
> 
> Watch the linewrap on that long link!
> 

Liam,
Interesting read.  As an op sys geek I like trying new things as time 
permits.  But I've avoided BSD even though many at the Linux lists seem 
to prefer it (I'm at a loss why they are AT the Linux lists, except 
maybe to "save" the Linux heathens?).  It seems that I'm not at all 
ready for BSD since I'm still at baby-step stage in Linux and also 
trying to learn SCSI for my DEC fileserver, where I'll have my *nix 
running with Apache & Samba.  So when the US gov't and Microsoft get 
together and add 12 hours to the world's days, then I'll have enough 
time to try it out and maybe even actually boot my Linux machine once in 
a while!

FYI, if you wrap a link in the "<" & ">" symbols line wrap doesn't 
affect it as this:

http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=267&mode=&order=0&thold=0
should wrap but this:

<http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=267&mode=&order=0&thold=0>
should not.

Now when we get this we'll see if I'm right or a fool! ;)
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