Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD
- From: Rick Moen <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:23:36 -0500
Daveman750 <dsimcha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Could you have possibly picked more of a flamebait topic and Subject
header, Dave? (Oh well. I like FreeBSD very much, by the way. To
answer your question about whether OS X proves BSD's a "viable desktop
platform": No, but PC-BSD and FreeSBIE do.)
> Simple: Being able to see the source code is only an important
> personal, as opposed to collective, freedom, for the small minority of
> people who are actually programmers. On the other hand, compiling
> source code is annoyingly slow and relatively difficult when it cones
> to things such as build environments.
This begs the question of why you feel you would be _obliged_ to
compile binaries locally (as opposed to choosing to do so).
Frankly, realistically speaking, you're talking proprietary-software
companies' OS wishlists. About which they care, but many of the rest of
us really don't.
And, by the way, not that I personally care, but running binaries from
one distribution on another is just a matter of satisfying their
dependencies, so your original claim isn't true, either.
Also, a few minutes' contemplation will reveal benefits from open source
(or, for that matter, proprietary licensing with source code access)
irrespective of whether you personal can program.
> Elaborating on the whole binary compatibility thing....
No thanks.
> Correct me if I'm wrong on this one, but I can't imagine why
> else they would package things separately for each of these distros.
OK, you're wrong.
Each distro necessarily maintains a minor, periodic fork in order to
comply with distro-specific build policies, etc. Which in no way
prevents running each others' binaries, if you actually care.
(/me has gone through the exercise of running Oracle RDBMS on
non-certified distributions, which is an edge case, recommended only for
the curious, and yet feasible.)
--
Cheers,
Rick Moen "vi is my shepherd; I shall not font."
rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Psalm 0.1 beta
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