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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:16333 comp.os.386bsd.questions:16958 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!aci.cvut.cz!news.dcs.muni.cz!anxur!salvet From: news@news.dcs.muni.cz (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Linux or BSDI Message-ID: <salvet.794681182@anxur> Organization: Masaryk University,Brno Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 16:46:22 GMT References: <3je5rs$iua@news.duke.edu> <3jebja$cdq@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <KHERA.95Mar6134902@kci.kciLink.com> Lines: 31 khera@kciLink.com (Vivek Khera) writes: >>>>>> "CO" == Clint Olsen <olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu> writes: >CO> In article <3je5rs$iua@news.duke.edu>, Vedat Nommaz <vn1@acpub.duke.edu> wrote: >>> I am a current Linux user. I almost use everything that's >>> available including X, compilers, servers, etc. i would like to >>> hear if BSD has any advantages over Linux from experienced BSD >>> users out there. I appreciate your help >CO> BTW, BSDI is a commercial variant of BSD, so you may want to compare >CO> NetBSD and FreeBSD to Linux. NetBSD is designed to run on many platforms >My criteria for choosing BSDI's system over any of the free systems >was that there is sombody responsible for it working. I run a >production environment, and need someone there who can solve my >problems. Not "ask around and hope someone can solve it", I need Solaris 2.x and IRIX 5.x are certainly targeted at production environment -- they are so buggy I can't beleive the producers are not going out of bussiness. I prefer "ask around and hope someone can solve it", not "ask vendor and wait several months for patches on CD, because nobody else can solve it". If I had to setup production environment, I would use NetBSD. No serious bugs, knowledgeable peole available, at the worst case full source at hand. BSDI is good solution too ( I think source code is available at reasonable price if support fails ), but commercial != better support by definition. t}m}