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OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD?

Posted by Soulskill on from the ten-paces-and-turn dept.

Norsefire writes "I am in quite a predicament. I decided a while back to branch out and use a new operating system (currently running Debian). After a bit of searching (trying Gentoo, Gobo and Arch along the way), I decided to use something that isn't Linux. Long story short: I narrowed the choices down to OpenSolaris and FreeBSD, but now I'm stuck. OpenSolaris is commercially backed by Sun, has nice enterprise-y tools in the default install, and best of all, a mature implementation of ZFS. FreeBSD is backed by a foundation, has a minimal default install and a rather new (but recently improved in the 8.0 release) implementation of ZFS, however it offers the Ports Collection (I quite like the performance boost due to compiling from source, no matter how small it might be) and a bigger community than OpenSolaris. That is just a minimal mention of the differences. I would be interested to see what the Slashdot community thinks of these two operating systems."

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  1. Re:Go the whole hog... by mario_grgic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is already such a thing. It's called Mac OS X.

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  2. Re:Go the whole hog... by mario_grgic · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    In today's day and age being so ignorant is ridiculous, when all you need to do is type a few strings in google search to get some information about things you talk about.

    OS X is NOT based on BSD, it however has BSD subsystem, among others. If anything it's based on NeXTSTEP, and mach kernel.

    And OS X interface bares little resemblance to original classic Mac.

    Anyone that's ever even casually used OS X today agrees that if you want UNIX desktop OS today, OS X is the way to go.

    Besides people whose opinion I value a lot more than your view endorse it

    e.g Bill Joy on Linux and OS X

    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/billjoy.html

    "Re-implementing what I designed in 1979 is not interesting to me personally. For kids who are 20 years younger than me, Linux is a great way to cut your teeth. It's a cultural phenomenon and a business phenomenon. Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to Linux."

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