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BSD For Linux Users
noackjr writes "Matt Fuller posted among his rants a great introduction and explanation of BSD For Linux Users: 'It's been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand BSD. I have a few theories on why that is, but that's not really relevant. I think a lot of Linux people get turned off BSD because they don't really understand how and why it's put together. Thus, this rant; as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that Linux people can absorb.'"
Why won't I use BSD? Because I believe in the GPL, not the Berkeley license, that's why.
If a software license was like the government:
1. BSD would be anarchy. You can do whatever you want with whatever you want, whenever you want to. Murder your own mother? Nobody cares, you're free to do so! It's anarchy baby!
2. Most of Microsoft's traditional licenses would be rampant fascism. We control everything, we are accountable for nothing, and we will not stop until there is nothing left. Hitler would be proud.
3. Just about any license agreement from any small company would be the equivalent to an Iraqi or Italian dictatorship (think Musolini, absolutely pathetic compared to Hitler, but still a complete control freak).
4. Shared source would be communism (you have the illusion of freedom, but really, we the collective control everything and you have no say even though we say you have say even though you don't but you do).
5 And finally, the GPL would be democracy. Democracies are hardly ideal, they are slow, they waste a lot of energy, they infight a lot, but in the end there is NOTHING better.
It's as simple as that.
Bryan
fsck {y,ies}ou all!
"Hardly used" will not fetch you a better price for your brain.
Let me get this straight:
Apple takes BSD code, incorporates it into a closed source, propretary operating system, and that's good.
Microsoft takes BSD code, incorporates it into a closed source, propretary operating system, and that's bad.
I'm not seeing a huge difference here...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
wow
i think Microsoft Windows would be a good choice for you
vodka, straight up, thank you!
"...how many angels can dance on a head of split hair."
Is he suggesting a split hair has a head like the head of a pin and if so, and, the head is on the other end from the split end, why would it matter if the hair was split, or, if the split end held the head wouldn't it be angels dancing on one half of a head? Or again, if he's referrencing the "head" from which the split hair fell or was pulled then perhaps it would be a count of the number of angels dancing on some one's head, someone with a serious hair problem.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Because you have to know Unix and Linux if you use BSD.
If you want to create a snazzy customized Linux like environment, then you need to hit the FreeBSD manuals and book.
That does not mean its hard. It means no gui install, no default booting into X, no color xterms or bash, etc. Just a simple tty login.
You learn the ports and setting up X and your shells. THen you customize your system with no depancy hell.
Really you have customization that no distro besides slackware provides. Gentoo offers that but I found it extremely low quality quality and no solid integrated product like FreeBSD is.
Linux is for beginers and FreeBSD is for experts or experienced users.
FreeBSD = Unix. No question about it.
I have learned more using FreeBSD exclusively for 9 months then several years under Linux.
For Linux users reading this let me tell you that Linux is just a kernel. FreeBSD is a whole integrated environment. All the linux distro's try to add things to it but its not as solid and breaks quickly when you try to change what the vendor adds as defaults.
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