From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-08-31T03:11:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Ruby Web Hosts

Yes yes. The code overview that is done regularly by
most of the BSD developers is great. I sit and watch
all the BSD channels and developers. Some sit on irc..
some complain, some compliment etc, BSDs tend to share
code between each. Really the biggest gap is
installation and a bug with a release that makes some
people just have "newbie farts" :) so they install
linux and beat the bsd community with "bsd is dying"

Thats not the worst part though. In the past few
years, there have been many linux people attacking the
bsd community. ex. on the freebsd mailing list,
someone forged a email to make it look like it was
from one of the major developers saying they were
taking linux support out. :( 

Though the email forged from Theo to Dillon was just
halarious. It was a April fools joke :P

--David Ross

--David Ross

--- Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jamis,
> 
> Don't let David's unexpected outburst reflect
> negatively on the BSD
> community at large. I highly recommend all of the
> major *BSD variants.
> Are they better than Linux? It depends on what your
> needs are. BSDs do
> tend to be more conservative in their development --
> that means more
> stable APIs and filesystem layouts, though it can
> also sometimes slow
> innovation.
> 
> The regular code audits of their source trees (esp.
> by the OpenBSD
> folks) give me at least a somewhat more confidence
> in their security,
> though I also have little doubt that their relative
> obscurity compared
> to Windows and Linux contributes a great deal to the
> scarcity of
> remote exploits.
> 
> Most importantly for our purposes here, though, they
> all run Ruby
> flawlessly, and make a great platform for deploying
> Ruby-based
> servers.
> 
> -- 
> Lennon
> rcoder.net
> 
> 



		
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