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voidmain:
Heh heh, if you ask a BSD geek that question you will get a resounding "yes".  If you ask a Linux geek that question you will get a resounding "no".  I suppose there are advantages and disadvantages in both directions depending on what you need to accomplish. I am sort of partial to Linux and use it everywhere I can to replace both Windows and proprietary UNIX.  Mainly because of the philosophy behind it, and the cost savings, and it's better in many ways. However, BSD and Linux are probably much closer in many ways than any other OSs. Although hard core geeks from both sides with surely differ. But I am just as comfortable on just about any *NIX system technically.

[ September 06, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Master of Reality:
NetBSD will run on SPARC and quite a number of other platforms (i think).

Neuro7:
I have tried FreeBSD before, but prefer Linux because I find it a little easier to use and I have used it more.A few of the pros that FreeBSD claims are that it doesn't use the copyleft license so you are at liberty to use it absolutely however you want, and that it supposedly will run most of the software for Linux. There are some other pros they claim, but it has been quite a while since I have read or used FreeBSD.
NetBSD is supposed to support the most variety of hardware, and OpenBSD is supposed to be the most secure out of the box install.

Neuro7

beltorak0:
posted again for your amusement:
 
quote:
Other than the fact Linux has a cool
name, could someone explain why I
should use Linux over BSD?

No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked
very hard on creating a name that would appeal
to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off:
thousands of people are using linux just to be able
to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What
a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of
putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations
into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people
just because it sounds too technical.

Master of Reality:
Linux is a cool name... so is Bob

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