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Kintaro:
Aloone Jonez I think you made a typo
"Technically Better" is suposed to read "Technically Behind"
toadlife:
--- Quote from: kintaro ---Aloone Jonez I think you made a typo
"Technically Better" is suposed to read "Technically Behind"
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But then it would incorrect.
Kintaro:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---But then it would incorrect.
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How is BSD technically better?
toadlife:
MUCH Better security record
Why?
linux: 19 security vulns in the 2.6.11 kernel since April 6, 2005
FreeBSD: 10 Security vulns in the entire 5.4-RELEASE since April 14, 2005 (3 in just the kernel)
OpenBSD: 6 security vulns in the entire 3.6-RELEASE since April 1, 2005 (
More stable
why?
This is purely anecdotal, but what the hell:
* BSD's owns virtualy all of the longest uptimes at netcraft
* Your linux box has crashed at least one more time than my BSD box has in the past month :p
Faster TCP stack
Why?
FreeBSD has consistently been shown to outperform linux under high networking loads. linux has improved in this area drastically with the advent of the 2.6 kernel
Better integrated firewalls (pf/ipfw2)
Why?
They are every bit as functional, and perform better then ipchains. The syntax of both ipfw2 and pf syntax is MUCH easier to learn than iptables. I've seen my share of iptables scripts..they are scary...I could impliment them in half the lines with ipfw2.
Slightly better file System:
UFS2 supports MUCH larger file sizes and volumes over any linux filesystem.
Also, the BSD's have featured fault tolerant file systems (resitant to power failures/hard resets) many years before linux did.
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---MUCH Better security record
Why?
linux: 19 security vulns in the 2.6.11 kernel since April 6, 2005
FreeBSD: 10 Security vulns in the entire 5.4-RELEASE since April 14, 2005 (3 in just the kernel)
OpenBSD: 6 security vulns in the entire 3.6-RELEASE since April 1, 2005 (
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I gotta agree with that. I'm starting to get seriously annoyed at the need to download a new kernel every six weeks or so to keep very serious kernel level security vulnerabilities off of my box. In contrast, the FreeBSD partition had only a DoS vulnerability in it's kernel.
I don't agree much with your other points though, and the fault tolerant file system argument might have been true many years ago but not any more since there are many journaling file systems available now.
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