[KLUG Members] Difference

[J. Edward Durrett]

> you could consider Darwin/Mac OS X a distribution of BSD.

Yes.  In fact, One of the founding members f freeBSD now works for 
Apple's Open Source project.

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> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
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>>> Hi!
>>> What is a difference between Linux,FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD licence ?
>>
>> Linux is GPL'd, it cannnot be closed.  AFAIK, none of the BSDs are 
>> under
>> GPL.  Their licenses are more restrictive.  But more importantly the
>> lead team on the BSD projects score higher on the arrogant scale,  so
>> they just can generate the same amount of momentum.
>>

BSD's are not under GPL under the theory that GPL is not completely 
free.  OpenBSD goes as far as not allowing "non-free" code from being 
used at all. At least that is my understanding of it.


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>>> Why there is no distribution of  FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD like 
>>> RedHat,mandrake?
>>>
>>

There are.  The thing is, RedHat et al is in the business of 
distributing software so they make pretty boxes for the store  -- not 
that there is anything wrong with pretty boxes.  I use a variant of 
Darwin (BSD) because it is in a pretty box (my ibook).

>> It took years for the installers, wizards, etc... to evolve to where
>> they are today on Linux.  BSDs have never made a similair effort,
>> hardware support is worse (for the reason sighted above).  And I 
>> diddled
>> with BSD awhile ago, generally like a bad commercial version of UNIX. 
>> It takes a long time to bring one up to a state of usability with a
>> robust tool kit.  BSD *HAD* some performance advantages under high 
>> load
>> or intense network traffic,  but with the release of 2.6 I fully 
>> expect
>> Linux to surpass them after which they will slowly die on the vine (if
>> they aren't already).
>>

Although I primarily use Linux (Debian/GNU Linux), there are some good 
things about the BSD's especially on the security side -- Oh, whee 
would I be with out OpenSSH(openBSD)!!

Also, the BSD's, weather free or commercial, are UNIX not Linux -- 
although the screen might seem the same, different stuff is happening!
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