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?
Does that matter? I realise *BSD is intended for servers primarily.
That's what they still say about Linux, btw.
I realise that. I never said Linux was perfect. I just said from what I know of *BSD it's worse in this regard than Linux.
Yes, it doesn't have a graphical point and click installer. So? A menu based curses GUI is no harder.
I wasn't referring to it's UI. I phrased that slightly incorrectly. I should have said "*BSD looks to an outside observer to be like Linux was 4 years ago." As in it appears to be less refined, harder to use and generally harder to get running and use. Maybe I'm worng. As I clearly stated in my email I've never installed or used *BSD (unless you count SunOS). But as an external observer who knows Linux well, *BSD holds little appeal. It appears to be a step backwards.
That's a really ignorant point of view.
I never said I was well informed with regard to the *BSD world. As an ignorant external observer BSD doesn't hold much interest. As I said before it appears to be much like Linux was a few years back. However I'm sure there are areas where *BSD excels over Linux. Not that it matters much. The BSD world is too splinted and too full of isolationist egotists from my observations.
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.
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