From: Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@...>
Date: 2004-03-06T07:41:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rubyx OS (Ruby oriented linux distro)

Hi!

* Benny:
> > Could you detail what precisely makes you choose FreeBSD in favor
> > of NetBSD and OpenBSD?
> 1. It seems to have a larger user-base.
> 2. I'm familiar with it
> 3. more ports

The objective arguments for using FreeBSD you provide make it hard to
justify why not to use Linux. It has a much larger user-base than
FreeBSD and even more ports. What in my opinion makes the most
important differences is that the Linux from Scratch project already
exists that removes quite an amout of work that has to be done to 
create a fully functional Ruby-oriented distribution. Even if such a 
text does exist for FreeBSD I am pretty sure that no translations of 
it are available. Because it is hosted at oss.erdfunkstelle.de I know 
for sure that a German translation of LFS does exist (and I would be 
surprised if that is the only one).

I think one should not start to write a second Ruby-based system. If
the Linux project should happen to fail chances are bad that a
FreeBSD project will succeed. And if the Linux project does succeed
it gathers quite an amount of experience that one can build on.

Just my 0.02 EUR

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT
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