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Overview of the BSDs
zeekiorage writes "A good informative article about the various BSD OSs, their legacy, philosophy and importance on the ExtremeTech web site. Excerpt from the article: 'Nowadays, the term 'The BSDs' refers to the family of operating systems which were derived, to a greater or lesser extent, from BSD. The five best known BSDs are FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, and Darwin (which serves as the foundation for Apple's MacOS X). But virtually all modern operating systems -- from Windows to BeOS to Linux -- rely on crucial BSD code to run.'"
BSD has been around much longer, and its much more mature than Linux.
You're joking, aren't you? The problems that the BSDs have are lack of drivers (compared to Linux), crude system limits (there's a maximum number of processes on OpenBSD, and if there are more processes, fork() only returns -1), a userland with less features (those who aren't GNU software), their IPv6 implementations are not standard-conforming and they're crashing more often than Linux does (NetBSD crashed on quite a lot of laptops of friends of mine, and it also did several times on my VAXstation). Do you call that "more mature"?
A monkey is doing the real work for me.
I don't read at -1... so I just have to ask...
Did someone post "*BSD is Dead" yet?
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
Learn to spell or learn to use spellcheck or you will continue to come across as a fucking idiot.
Writers imply. Readers infer.