On 1/21/07, Brian Keefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Because driver support for Linux is a lot better than for OpenBSD,
I'm not sure if I believe this to be as strong an argument since, as the blackbox maker, you have your choice of hardware. This means you can choose hardware that runs openbsd without issues, unless you need the most cuttng edge hardware. We have two of your Edge boxes at work, and from what I can see, you can get that, or equivalent hardware running openbsd without problems.
and a lot of the Anti-Virus vendors supply Linux binaries, but no BSD binaries.
Now, this, I believe. But many of the smaller vendors have binaries for freebsd, and I'm also quite sure someone the size of Tumbleweed can get binaries for whatever platform you guys want. Maybe not as easily. I might be wrong too :)
Also, developers for Linux are cheaper (and more plentiful) than developers for BSD.
This, I have to disagree with. Are you talking about kernel hackers? If so, I'd think they cost about the same. If you're talking about application developers, what really is the difference between someone who writes an application in openbsd, versus one who writes it in solaris or aix or linux?! And if you believe in java, openbsd 4.0 runs jdk 1.5 :)
The company I worked for considered switching our appliance OS to a *BSD from Linux, but in the end we decided that commercial support was too important to ignore.
"Commercial support from large vendors?" Probably so. And I have no idea how good is the commercial support from the smaller vendors listed on openbsd's site either.
is crap). If you're building something that needs to use a lot of third-party commercial software in addition to your own code, sadly Linux is currently a better choice. I personally cannot stand Linux,
I'm looking at something like the Edge, and I'm not sure if I see anything on it that couldn't be quickly developed on openbsd. After all, the main engine is postfix. Speaking of the Edge, can you spank your developers a little and tell them to provide better logging? 8-) Btw, if you prefer to take this to private email, that's fine too, I'm actually interested in some of these things.
