Very Non-Biased FreeBSD Review

Anonymous Coward writes "From daily.daemonnews.org we have a link to a very very good article that describes almost exactly why many people (including myself) use FreeBSD." The author makes some good points, including good uses for file attributes and secure levels. An argument for BSD for several specific uses, and Linux for others.

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Re:ext2 not quite as bad as shown here

[BusterB]

OK, I wrote the maintainers of GNU chmod, and they've added a See Also section to its man page. They were really nice, and prompt. Kind of makes arguing about stuff on /. a little silly if you can just change things yourself. I appreciate the new commands, though [man -k|apropos] flags doesn't work with Slackware GNU/Linux, the place where it would have maybe been the most useful. The thing to ask about documentation is, why not make it the most useful to anyone who doesn't know how to do something, rather than just a reference to those who already do. Consider this: what command is an average beginning Unix tutorial going to teach first ? 1) chmod 2) chflags 3) chattr . I'll bet that a lot more people know about 1 than do about the other two, because only chmod is a standard between all unixes I know about (which may not be many, but is >1). And all three commands perform a subset of one function - change some of the various flags on a file. The best way for all of the Unixes out there to improve is to accept that not everything is obvious to all people, even moderately inteligent ones. It doesn't hurt to keep asking, 'does this still make sense to many people?' rather than saying 'this just the way it is. read the man page and deal with it'.