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Whether you love it or hate it, open-source software is here to stay.
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A quick word on the FreeBSD mascot:
Well, the FreeBSD mascot is not a reference to a satanic cult or anything like that. It is a joking reference to background processes in UNIX system that handle various tasks. These background processes are called “daemons”.
So, what about the pitchfork? That is a reference to an important system call knows as “fork”.
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The special effects for the Warner Brother’s motion picture “The Matrix” where rendered on a cluster of FreeBSD systems. ;o)
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Why has Linux grown so quickly?
Firstly, Linux was very VERY alpha when Linus released it, and it was very hackable. Lots of people loved it. In fact, its still like that.
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Remember: FreeBSD is not a clone! Linux is! i.e. FreeBSD is Unix(r)
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There Are probably as many reasons to use FreeBSD as there are the numbers of people who use it.
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In the distributions of Linux there are a lot of friendly scripts to reconfigure your networking, your mail setup, hell even an X configuration tool to build your kernel!
Serious users would whisper “bloat”.
Novice users would whisper “easy”.
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For years, the Linux developer community was a rowdy bunch of hackers who were interested in just putting together a Unixlike operating system that they could freely distribute. Development was fast and furious — sometimes a little too much so. The frenzy produced great diversity, a number of different Linux versions, some incompatible changes with other Unix systems and more than a few security bugs. o
Linux users complain that FreeBSD doesn’t support as much hardware as Linux does. This hardware would be unneeded on a server. As I see it, Linux is for desktop workstations that rely on sound and video, where FreeBSD is for high volume servers and desktop workstations in a business environment.
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FreeBSD is known for having one of the fastest TCP/IP stacks in the operating-system world.
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FreeBSD is a complete operating system maintained by a core team; Linux is a kernel maintained by Linus Torvalds.
Anyone can contribute code to Linux; contributions to FreeBSD must be reviewed and accepted by the core team.
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Another complaint from users of all UNIX-like OSes is that no one develops applications for FreeBSD. What most people don’t know is that FreeBSD will emulate 99% of all Linux binaries, sometimes faster then Linux can execute them itself.
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BSD is as old as the PC and was running in universities back when Bill Gates was famous for MS-DOS.
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BSDs have always been the choice of system administrators who cared more about integrity, security, and reliability, than sizzle and flash.
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WINDOWS: “Where do you want to go today?”
LINUX: “Where do you want to go tommorow?”
BSD: “Are you guys coming or what?”
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Linux is for people who hate Microsoft.
NetBSD is for people who hate OpenBSD.
OpenBSD is for people who hate everyone else.
I haven’t yet figured out who FreeBSD is for.
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The GNU su manpage actually says this:
This program does not support a “wheel group” that
restricts who can su to super-user accounts, because that
can help fascist system administrators hold unwarranted
power over other users.
…apparently it’s better for any user to attack the root password than to offer added security. Ignorance of security is a common Linux thread.
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Perhaps one of the biggest differences between FreeBSD ans Linux is that of advocacy. FreeBSD Has very little of it by comparison. The voices that aggressively premote Linux do not have comparable analogs in the FreeBSD world. In a way, this makes sense; Linux is a more “extreme” example of the open-source ideal, and FreeBSD is a moderate compromise between open-source enthusiasm and corporate stodginess. The vibrancy of Linux contributes to its higher visibility, but also means it’s a more chaotic platform and community. FreeBSD attempts to be more attractive to traditionalists, and so it’s not as flashy, but it’s in many ways more sturdy and predictable – it’s a true UNIX, with original commercial UNIX code that has the same stability as traditional “big-iron” UNIX variants. It’s hard to say whether Linux or FreeBSD is more “cutting-edge” or has the more modern features, but in many ways FreeBSD trails Linux as a “showcase” platform for the newest Windows-challenging features that attempt to bring open-source to the desktop. That’s really not where FreeBSD is targeted.
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Because FreeBSD has a single source tree that is controlled by a core team, it tends to be more stable that Linux, and therefore is often more suitable for a production environment. The main drawback to this is that new features are not always implemented as quickly in FreeBSD as in Linux. There is a trade-off here. Do you want stability for a production environment? Or, do you want the latest gizmos and gadgets to play with at the expense of performance and stability?
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Both linux and FreeBSD have their good and bad points, and unless you are going to constructively point them out, don’t say anything.
Copy paste dari http://www.ltn.lv/~ac/UNIXvsLINUX.html
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