Linux vs BSD
I found an article/rant that attempts to explain some of the differences
between
BSD
& Linux.
I have run BSD very briefly on my laptop once but decided that I wasn't quite
ready to learn a whole new operating system just then and ended up nuking it.
I am not sure I agree with all of the things he says, and it is difficult to
compare one derivative of UNIX with all the flavours of Linux but still its not
a bad read.
He makes an argument that the BSD ports tree is highly centralized
"But all those files in that big directory tree are maintained by the
FreeBSD
project itself. When somebody wrote KDE, for instance, it didn't magically
appear in ports trees everywhere. Somebody had to write all the necessary
`glue' to build a port for it, then commit the files into the FreeBSD CVS
repository so it would be in the ports collection. So again, there's some level
of assurance that it works with other things in the ports collection. Any
dependencies it has will be there, because it can't declare a dependency on
something not in ports."
I must be missing something because I see the Debian package archive in much
the
same light.