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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>
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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.
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