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In dit vrij diepgaande artikel van Mark Hubley wordt de toekomst bekeken van de
verschillende BSD’s.
Er wordt eerst even naar het verleden gekeken hoe de BSD’s zijn ontstaan en daarna
worden de verschillen ten opzichte van Linux uitgelegd.
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Na deze vergelijking worden de verschillende BSD besproken en gaat men verder in op de toekomst van deze BSD’s.
Wat leuke quote’s uit het erg prettig geschreven artikel:
[quote]
One of the hurdles right now for the most widely used BSD distribution, FreeBSD, is the decision in October 2001 by Wind River Systems (WRS) to divest itself of the
FreeBSD project. FreeBSD has gone through a whirlwind of changes over the past couple of years, as its major distributors changed from Walnut Creek to BSDi and in
early 2001 to WRS. WRS currently owns the FreeBSD trademark, and its decision to discontinue its involvement lends credence to the impression that the operating
system’s future is in question as the company decides what to do with it.
But the company is not the moving force behind FreeBSD�its major backing is in the form of the FreeBSD community�a group of hundreds of worldwide volunteers who
continue to be enthusiastic and develop FreeBSD. [/quote]
Tuurlijk moet Yahoo nog even aangehaald worden:
[quote]Yahoo continues to use thousands of FreeBSD servers, with more being put
into production all the time.[/quote]
De compatibiliteit van de BSD’s
[quote]All three major open source BSDs now have good Linux support and claim
some Linux binaries run faster on BSD than on Linux. BSDs also variously claim to be
capable of running binaries for SVR4, SCO Unix, character-mode DOS, SunOS, and
HP-UX[/quote]
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