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Posted: Feb. 12 2005,13:54 QUOTE

BSD > *



flamebait, i know.


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Posted: Feb. 12 2005,18:37 QUOTE

Quote (tronik @ Feb. 12 2005,08:54)
BSD > *



flamebait, i know.

Whats BSD?
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Posted: Feb. 12 2005,23:50 QUOTE

I've never used BSD, but from what I've heard it is true Unix, legally licensed for free distribution and modification.

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Posted: Feb. 13 2005,03:24 QUOTE

Quote (mikshaw @ Feb. 11 2005,23:30)
My "worst to best" list, of the OSs I've used...
Windows ME
Menuet
Mac OS 8
DOS
Mac OS 9
Windows98
Windows95
Windows98SE
Windows NT4
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Mac OS X
Linux

Don't forget Windows 3.1 and NT 3.51  *cough*, *cough*.

Seriously, though, NT 3.51 is supposedly more stable than any other version of Windows.  Less in it to break, I presume. :p

and I'm not sure I'd even bother putting MenuetOS on this list yet.


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Posted: Feb. 13 2005,04:13 QUOTE

Interesting... Yes... BSD is Berkeley Software Distribution, currently there are several implementation of 4.4BSD Lite (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD)...There are others, bsd/os/bsdi...but they're not too mainstream anymore.

BSD is a powerful operating system, it is very stable, runs on a wide variety of machine architecture (even your toaster might be able to run NetBSD) and has the capability of being just as robust (if not more than, ahem, but thats neither here nor there) than Linux.

There is a large rift in the 'unix' community about BSD and Linux...but I can only say I use them both, now. A few years ago you wouldn't have caught me dead using Linux. I hadn't used it since 1996.

Anyway...BSD is great...Check it out if you get a chance. Any of the distributions are grand...I'd suggest FreeBSD though.
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