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OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD?
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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How about GNU Hurd, that's something really different.
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Where are communist countries on the map? I bet "patriot" like u doesn't know much about communism at all... what speaking about OSes!
I used to live 16 years in cominist county and there was much more freedom than police country like US, ruled by magacorps and market interest. Leave man alone or help with question he asked. Shame on you!
Other than north korea and (more and more every year) Venezuela. They're mostly off the map.
But there are lots of graves to visit. Several hundred million of them in fact. In Russia, in China (and the whole of South Asia), in Africa, in the middle east, ... lots of graves of people who didn't exactly die of old age.
But of course, all of those countries don't count as communism. After all, they were "imperfectly implemented", right ? Or "stolen" by dictators. (just like Teheran and Bagdad have massive graveyards of "imperfectly implemented" islam. Plastic keys to paradise with 72 virgins pictured on them and all (yes I know the plastic keys are only on the Iranian side ... oh well)).
Ironically Iran is the only country where you could make a very good argument that dictators stole the communist revolution.
I expect some BSDs to flourish as well
Have you forgotten the Unix Wars? (Are you old enough to remember the Unix Wars?
The BSD license allowed companies to fracture Unix into a dozen slightly different flavors. That allowed MSFT to swoop in as the cheap, "unified code base" and dominate the industry.
While the GPL seems to encourage forking just as much as does BSD, the "lessons learned" from BSD and the requirement to publish patches actually mitigates against forking.
Besides, which BSDs -- besides OSX -- are actually flourishing?
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