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Linux vs FreeBSD
Refalm:
The BSD kernel is better, period.
The Linux kernel is overloaded with useless junk (who the fuck needs amateur radio drivers in the kernel? :confused:).
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Refalm ---The Linux kernel is overloaded with useless junk
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True, but such junk can be disabled or compiled as a module.
--- Quote from: Refalm ---who the fuck needs amateur radio drivers in the kernel?
--- End quote ---
Linux users who have amateur radio devices ;)
They're both classic monolithic kernels. If the FreeBSD kernel was as popular as Linux, it'd eventually become "overloaded with useless junk".
Drivers work pretty much the same way in FreeBSD as in Linux, right?
Kintaro:
--- Quote from: Refalm ---The BSD kernel is better, period.
The Linux kernel is overloaded with useless junk (who the fuck needs amateur radio drivers in the kernel? :confused:).
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I doubt you have a clue about either, with Linux your an idiot if you compiled amatuer radio and don't need it, you do not need to compile. And as far as I know OpenBSD doesn't even support it. So as far as your telling me Linux is better than Linux.
FreeBSD doesn't even support a normal console (keyboard/monitor) on Sparc64 hardware, Linux does. I run FreeBSD on a Sun Blade 100 so I know. Don't get me wrong, I like FreeBSD, it has far better security. In fact most of my machines run BSD, and my workstations run Linux.
The Linux kernel has far better desktop proformance with kernel premption and stuff. FreeBSD does not even come near Linux on desktop proformance. BSD typically has better process proformance (those benchmarks show that), and usually less stack holes (Linux compiled default on most machines has no stack protection). However if I was running RAID or something I/O intesive I would run Linux which is typically better there.
My favorite BSD is OpenBSD, its the best by far. My favorite distro is Fedora and Slackware.
themacuser:
Some OSes do better for better stuff.
OS X is nice for wardriving because now that the airport driver's been hacked, you can have passive sniffing that works on all hardware, proper packet injection, easy MAC address changing, and fast key cracking (KisMac uses altivec, keys get recovered VERY fast on a dual 2.7 G5 :D).
It's also good for packet sniffing because it doesnt get found out by wrong mac / right ip pings like windows does and sometimes linux does.
Promiscuous mode "just works" unlike on Windows, and with some drivers on linux.
Refalm:
--- Quote from: kintaro ---I doubt you have a clue about either, with Linux your an idiot if you compiled amatuer radio and don't need it, you do not need to compile. And as far as I know OpenBSD doesn't even support it. So as far as your telling me Linux is better than Linux.
FreeBSD doesn't even support a normal console (keyboard/monitor) on Sparc64 hardware, Linux does. I run FreeBSD on a Sun Blade 100 so I know. Don't get me wrong, I like FreeBSD, it has far better security. In fact most of my machines run BSD, and my workstations run Linux.
The Linux kernel has far better desktop proformance with kernel premption and stuff. FreeBSD does not even come near Linux on desktop proformance. BSD typically has better process proformance (those benchmarks show that), and usually less stack holes (Linux compiled default on most machines has no stack protection). However if I was running RAID or something I/O intesive I would run Linux which is typically better there.
My favorite BSD is OpenBSD, its the best by far. My favorite distro is Fedora and Slackware.
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I'm simply saying here that I think the Linux kernel shouldn't include all those drivers. menuconfig will be a whole less cluttered with the kernel and drivers seperated.
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