Linux Versus BSD

<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">If you compare Linux and OpenBSD in their desktop environment features, Linux offers more applications than OpenBSD; but in a server solution BSD systems are known to be robust, more stable and secure, and without so many patches distributors release soon after their new version of Linux slithered to light.</span><br /></div><br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" class="fullpost" >What is a BSD Unix?</span><br /><br /><span class="fullpost" style="font-family:arial;">BSD family of Unix systems is based upon the source code of real Unix developed in Bell Labs, which was later purchased by the University of California - "Berkeley Software Distribution". The contemporary BSD systems stand on the source code that was released in the beginning of 1990's (Net/2 Lite and 386/BSD release).</span><br /><br /><span class="fullpost" style="font-family:arial;">BSD is behind the philosophy of TCP/IP networking and the Internet thereof; it is a developed Unix system with advanced features. Except for proprietary BSD/OS, the development of which was discontinued, there are currently four BSD systems available: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Mac OS X, which is derived from FreeBSD. There are also various forks of these, like PC-BSD - a FreeBSD clone, or MirOS, an OpenBSD clone. The intention of such forks is to include various characteristics missing in the above BSD systems, on which these (forks), no matter how well they are designed, only strongly depend. PC-BSD, for example, has more graphical features than FreeBSD, but there are no substantial differences between these two. PC-BSD cannot breathe without FreeBSD; FreeBSD or OpenBSD are independent of one another.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" class="fullpost" >What is Linux?</span><br /><br /><span class="fullpost" style="font-family:arial;">Albeit users like to use the term "Linux" for any Linux distro including its packages (Red Hat Linux, Mandrake Linux, etc.), for IT professionals Linux is only the kernel. Linux started in 1991, when its author, Linus Torvals, began his work on a free replacement of Minix. Developers of quite a few Linux system utilities used the source code from BSD, as both these systems started parallelly in about the same time (1992-1993) as Open Source.</span><br /><br /><span class="fullpost" style="font-family:arial;">Today, there are a few, if not many developers of their own kernels/operating systems (FreeDOS, Agnix, ReactOS, Inferno, etc.), but these guys simply missed the right train in the right hour. They did not lose anything except for the fact that they may be even better programmers, but without the public opinion acknowledging this at large. Linus built his fame also from work of many developers and he went on board in the right time. Linus deserves a credit as a software idea policy maker and he helped very much in this respect.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" class="fullpost" >(Open)BSD vs Linux</span><br /><br /><span class="fullpost" style="font-family:arial;">It is often difficult to say what is better if you compare two things without regarding the purpose of their use. Mobile Internet may appear better for someone who travels often, but for people working at home such mobility is not necessary. In this view, it is a stupid question when someone asks: "What is better, a mobile or static Internet?" It all depends...</span><br /><br /><span class="fullpost" style="font-family:arial;">BSD systems are based upon real Unix source code contrary to Linux, which was developed from scratch (kernel).</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Author:</strong> Juraj Sipos</span></div></span>

If you compare Linux and OpenBSD in their desktop environment features, Linux offers more applications than OpenBSD; but in a server solutio...

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