On 8/17/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
Umm...not to belittle BSD community but BSD isn't not exactly known widely, is it? Sure, they have great stuff but its not always superior code / technology thats used by the masses. Look at M$ Windoze :). By far and large Linux is much well known, is more widely used and has a larger community.
BSD is fairly well known in technical circles. BSD had the first TCP/IP network stack. It was the first free Unix to be widely available for commercial use.OpenBSD is very well known in the security community. NetBSD is used on a lot of embedded systems. FreeBSD is also very widely for hosting sites and still is.
Some of the systems and paradigms you take from granted in the Linux world were conceptualised and implemented in BSD first. (e.g package managemnet systems such as portage)
-- Vinayak
PS. This is degenerating into a BSD versus GPL. and Linux Vs BSD thread. Both have a place in the FOSS world. Debating won't take it anywhere.