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michael
on from the feather-in-his-cap dept.
ankit writes: "Linux.com has an interesting interview with Brian Behlendorf, President of the Apache Software Foundation and CTO of CollabNet to talk about open source, the meaning of freedom, Richard Stallman and aliens from outside our solar system."
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Wow, I'm amazed at the whininess of 2nd post--I understand your petty jealousy of not being 1st. Remember the old saying, 2nd place is the first loser? LOL!!!!
Why I chose FreeBSD
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I don't want to start a FreeBSD vs Linux battle. I get enough of that from some of the people I know. But I have to admit that after using several Linux distros and using FreeBSD, the choice (for me) was quite clear. That's not to say I didn't like some of the Linux distros I tried. Not at all. I really liked Storm and I fully intend to install either Debian or Slackware on an IBM I have sitting in the corner. But when it came time to choose a system of the many I tried to run my web-server off of, I had to settle on FreeBSD.
At first I was a little wery about going with something slightly less mainstream than Linux, but good Linux binary compatibility (not to mention the Ports Collection) was a plus that won me over to FreeBSD.
With FreeBSD the first few days were really rough because there were several major annoyances I had, and none of my Linux friends had any useful insight. But I quickly solved most of my problems on my own. I feel I have learned much more this way. Plus, when I needed quick answers, web-searches almost always provided immediate and exact answers because there is only one FreeBSD and many other users have experienced the exact same problems.
It's something of a shame that Storm went the way of the wind, but after I made my choice to run FreeBSD it hasn't mattered too much. As for my soon-to-be Linux system, that just shows that I'm not knocking Linux at all (how could I?) it's just that I made the choice based on my needs and what I like. I personally don't feel I was moving forward fast enough with any of the Linux distros, but I felt comfortable with FreeBSD very quickly.
Re:fp
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Wow. I'm amazed by the incredible stupidness of this first post. I mean, come on. It's in the Apache section. You know you are going to get first post. Why not come up with some thing original isn't of the usual shit. At least post some pRon story or something...
He didn't talk much about where Apache is "going next", that would have been nice to get some new info on. I think the Linux.com interviewer could have been a little bit more diverse in the questioning, and leave out some of the fluff "What's your favorite music?" questions...
Other than that, well worth the read. Right on Brian, thanks for being apart of the open source community.
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Wow, I'm amazed at the whininess of 2nd post--I understand your petty jealousy of not being 1st. Remember the old saying, 2nd place is the first loser? LOL!!!!
I don't want to start a FreeBSD vs Linux battle. I get enough of that from some of the people I know. But I have to admit that after using several Linux distros and using FreeBSD, the choice (for me) was quite clear. That's not to say I didn't like some of the Linux distros I tried. Not at all. I really liked Storm and I fully intend to install either Debian or Slackware on an IBM I have sitting in the corner. But when it came time to choose a system of the many I tried to run my web-server off of, I had to settle on FreeBSD.
At first I was a little wery about going with something slightly less mainstream than Linux, but good Linux binary compatibility (not to mention the Ports Collection) was a plus that won me over to FreeBSD.
With FreeBSD the first few days were really rough because there were several major annoyances I had, and none of my Linux friends had any useful insight. But I quickly solved most of my problems on my own. I feel I have learned much more this way. Plus, when I needed quick answers, web-searches almost always provided immediate and exact answers because there is only one FreeBSD and many other users have experienced the exact same problems.
It's something of a shame that Storm went the way of the wind, but after I made my choice to run FreeBSD it hasn't mattered too much. As for my soon-to-be Linux system, that just shows that I'm not knocking Linux at all (how could I?) it's just that I made the choice based on my needs and what I like. I personally don't feel I was moving forward fast enough with any of the Linux distros, but I felt comfortable with FreeBSD very quickly.
Wow. I'm amazed by the incredible stupidness of this first post. I mean, come on. It's in the Apache section. You know you are going to get first post. Why not come up with some thing original isn't of the usual shit. At least post some pRon story or something...
He didn't talk much about where Apache is "going next", that would have been nice to get some new info on. I think the Linux.com interviewer could have been a little bit more diverse in the questioning, and leave out some of the fluff "What's your favorite music?" questions...
Other than that, well worth the read. Right on Brian, thanks for being apart of the open source community.
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