Matt Dillon On FreeBSD 5.0 VM System And More

JigSaw writes: "OSNews features a very interesting interview regarding FreeBSD 5 with the guy responsible for the very good (technically) FreeBSD VM among other things. Matt Dillon talks about everything: FreeBSD 5, Linux, .NET and much more. Additionally, OSNews also includes two mini interviews with the NetBSD and OpenBSD head developers."

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Wow

[Chris Brewer]

I didn't know that there's such a following by Hollywood actors of alternative Operating Systems.

Maybe the last big movie he was in should have been called "There's Something About BSD".

The real scoop...

[Anonymous Coward]

Matt tells us that Somthing About Mary 2 will be fully compatable with FreeBSD

Bad Logic

[recursiv]

Just because one actor follows "alternative Operating Systems", you conclude that there is such a following?

Way to generalize! Have a cookie.

Re:Interesting view...

[chinton]

I don't think that this is specific to Linux-hype at all, though. Look at most of the dead (or dying) .com companies. Most of those business plans read as follows:

1. Provide a service free of charge.
2. Profit!

Thanks for the cue!

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Re:Not all labelled Linux is actually Linux

[Arandir]

Since you can run Windows applications on Linux using WINE, would it be proper to say that "Microsoft Word is a Linux application"?

Re:Excuse me?

[Arandir]

Even though his pet peeve might not be my pet peeve, it still peeves me off. There are many kinds of linuxisms, even though I mentioned only one.

Li*nux*ism:
Pronunciation: 'lee-nuks-izm'
Function: noun
Date: 1998
: a theory holding that the community can know nothing but its own operating system and that its operating system is the only existent operating system. Compare with English "solipsism".

p.s. You have a Linuxism in your post. Can you find it?

Re:VM in Linux and FreeBSD

[Anonymous Coward]

Translation: I can't defend any of this, since all I know was a bit of technical talk I didn't understand on a mailing list I lurk on.

So instead of anything substantive, I'll give you my useless anecdotes about my preferred system's performance being more "enjoyable."

And of course, any circumstance where anything outperforms my preferred system, I'll dismiss it out of hand.

I used to miss comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, but slashdot's BSD section is an excellent substitute.