On Thursday 08 December 2005 08:37, (रेवंत) Revant Nandgaonkar wrote:
Whats the difference? diff the following first
- Kernel differences that end user can feel
- Distribution differences and lack or advantage of software.
I'm currently using ubuntu and I'm very happy with it. It has all things which Debian's side of Gnu/Linux can give, and its working fine with lots of newbie/intermediate user friendly documentation.
I read many flame of Linux vs BSD and flamers seem to be supporting BSD,
Should i install BSD flavor and try it? will it just work like ubuntu (Automatix, wiki.ubuntu.com)?
Personally, I say use whatever suits you best. Don't go in just cuz you think it's gonna make you seem more "1337". As far as the Linux vs BSD "flames" go, well I can say only one thing - Each system has its advantages and disadvantages. Performance wise Linux and BSD are more or less on par. But what we see factually is Linux has a more wider acceptance and audience. Not going into the details, I would like to tell you that my experience with Linux has been fantastic. While my experience with BSD (i.e. FreeBSD) has been pathetic. It's installer was buggy and it destroyed all partitions on all physical drives in my computer. This was even though I had reserved a separate 10GB physically independent harddrive for it.
It took about 10 days of 16-20hrs per day of gruelling computer forensics and recovery to get back all data from my 140GB (120 + 20) corrupted partitions. It was complicated as hell. BTW Knoppix had come to my rescue back then :). I am still lost for an answer as to why FreeBSD did what it did to my system. Perhaps it didn't want to run along side Linux, Windows, FreeBSD. When it comes to drivers FreeBSD sucks. Doesn't have enough drivers to support a wide variety of hardware.
But then those who do manage to get FreeBSD working with their systems, swear by it. It's supposed to be "rock solid". Evidence of this was obvious when Apple decided that they would dump their own core and instead put the little devil incharge of their OS ;)
I like my humble little Linux. Its stable enough for me to swear by it :)