* Oliver Jones <oliver(a)deeper.co.nz> [2004-06-29 02:21]:
Personally I can't think of a good reason to run any other OS than Linux on a server.
Is *BSD reason enough? ;-) Of course, that's probably not what you were thinking about.. they get dropped into the shadow of Linux too often though.
I've never used BSD so I don't know what benefit there would be. All I can see from *BSD is more work, more difficulty to install, less hardware support, etc etc.
Sorry, are we talking about the desktop here, or servers? That's what they still say about Linux, btw.
*BSD looks from an outside viewer to be like Linux was 4 years ago.
Yes, it doesn't have a graphical point and click installer. So? A menu based curses GUI is no harder.
While it is commendable that there are other "free" Unix alternatives to Linux I really think it is little more than a sideline curiosity.
That's a really ignorant point of view.
Certainly Sony found NetBSD useful when creating it's Network Game SDK. They just ripped the TCP/IP stack right out, ported it to the PS2 and gave it to developers.
Yes, and Microsoft ripped the TCP/IP stack out of FreeBSD. Regards, -- Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."