[ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

[Vinayak Hegde]

On 8/17/06, Dinesh Joshi <dinesh.a.joshi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Umm...not to belittle BSD community but BSD isn't not exactly known
> widely, is it? Sure, they have great stuff but its not always superior
> code / technology thats used by the masses. Look at M$ Windoze :). By
> far and large Linux is much well known, is more widely used and has a
> larger community.

BSD is fairly well known in technical circles. BSD had the first TCP/IP
network stack. It was the first free Unix to be widely available for
commercial use.OpenBSD is very well known in the security community.
NetBSD is used on a lot of embedded systems. FreeBSD is also very
widely for hosting sites and still is.

Some of the systems and paradigms you take from granted in the Linux
world were conceptualised and implemented in BSD first. (e.g package
managemnet systems such as portage)

-- Vinayak

PS. This is degenerating into a BSD versus GPL. and Linux Vs BSD
thread. Both have a place in the FOSS world. Debating won't take it
anywhere.