Re: [Lilux-help] FreeBSD, compile from source and Distributions

Michael Scherer wrote: I like the *BSDs and I also think that they are technically superior to Linux. But the difference (unlike compared to Windows) between Linux and *BSD just is too small to justify giving up commercial support. By commercial support I can give you an example: At work we use HP DL380 servers from HP. HP provides Linux drivers and agents for everything (for RedHat's Enterprise distributions). You can control the temperature of different zones, rotating speed of the fans, RAID status. There is a curses based tool to configure the RAID. If there is a problem, it gets logged into syslogd and the agent sends SNMP traps. Without the agents installed, I would *not* get noticed when a drive fails. I would not see a single line in syslogd. OK, there is a red light on the drive itself which goes on, but the servers aren't all located on our site! The industry just has settled on Linux! They may support a second systems besides Windows (and it is justified because Linux is quite different to Windows and Linux does many things Windows cannot do), but they will not support a third system where the benefits are quite marginal. Many organisations who replace commercial Unix by Linux need Oracle and DB2 support (emulation just doesn't cut it). They don't just do FTP, WWW and Mail especially on the large servers. Don't forget, I have *BSD installed on many machines at home and as a firewall I run NetBSD on a Sun SparcClassic. But I would not recommend it at work, where people just have accepted Linux. Patrick Kaell