Digg or be Dugg - digg-dugg the game
Hmm, it seems some guy posted one of my articles on the news trash dump of the internet “digg”. I hate digg, well, I don’t actually hate it but I see it as a second rank news source. I usually read /.
Ok, some people have actually read this Linux vs the BSDs article. This was in no way a comparison and it wasn’t meant to be. It’s just the opinion af a real Linux fanboy who has worked with Linux since he could remember and never actually installed a full BSD system. Only worked with it.
Today I’ve started installing my test system I wrote about with one of the BSDs. I started with FreeBSD. It worked until the second floppy. My compaq hasn’t got any room left for a cd drive so I had to use the floppy install. The second FreeBSD 6 floppy kept giving trouble. I have checked the download, used new floppy disks and dd didn’t give any errors. FreeBSD couldn’t load it’s kernel. Oh well, on to OpenBSD. I downloaded the floppy image that would give me extended SCSI support. My compaq has got a very old well supported Adaptec 7xxx SCSI controller. OpenBSD couldn’t find any hard disk. I gave up and started the NetBSD install. This was a good one for a change. My system is running NetBSD right now. I have to check how this system works (ports and stuff) but I think I can manage to get X running and have a NetBSD desktop system.
I’d like to do a total comparison, but it takes some highly skilled experts to configure the boxes. I can manage a Linux box but I’m really new to BSD systems and Solaris. So if someone or some company wants to help us compare the operating systems by donating hardware or just help out in any way you are free to contact me. I haven’t got the financial backup to buy a new system just to make a good comparison on. Maybe I’m going to use Qemu or something. That’s fair. So if people can send me a fully configured Qemu image from one of the BSDs I’d be really happy. With something like Qemu the comparison is 100% equal.
And say, if I manage to get some mail witch Qemu images my comparison won’t be pro-Linux. Yes, it will run on top of a Linux install but that shouldn’t matter. I’ll just run some benchmarks on all the systems. Things that I would like to see in a fully configured system: X.org, Apache2, PHP5, MySQL and some other stuff your OS can’t do without. You are free to send me any OS when you are allowed to redistribute all it’s contents.
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