FreeBSD Popularity

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 02/03/2010 24:02:31, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
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> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Eitan Adler wrote:
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>>> Tell people how great freebsd is, not how crappy linux is. Remind them
>>> that we're all "unix-like", so you're not loosing anything by selecting
>>> freebsd for server stuff, you can still use linux as a workstation.
>>
>> And you could still use freeBSD a desktop or Linux as a server.
> 
> Forgive me for belaboring the obvious, but meanwhile, but Microsoft
> servers are far less indicated.. I'm wondering if anyone feels like
> opining on MacOSX's Darwin dirty little secret kernel acting as a server.

Well, it would probably work pretty well, but what's the benefit you get
from using Darwin like that?  Without all the rest of Mac OS X, Darwin
doesn't stand out from the crowd in any particularly interesting ways.
It might be fun to play with, but for a serious workload I'd go FreeBSD.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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