I would ignore this if you don't like Off topic posts, and flame me if you so wish, just there is a small discussion going on in a debian mail list and this post made me chuckle a bit...reminded me of Jason's presentation about bsd dying. In hindsight, why I said anything in the first place I will never know.
<back story> On 22/02/2010 13:01, NN9OON3N?O N N,N;N;N1O wrote: > > (it is, isn't it? :-) ) > > > > So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo, and > > are searching for our new environment. From my personal experience I > > would say debian stable - any hard evidence to support the claim? Server > > OS statistics? Statistics for stableness? Bugs? Any white papers showing > > debian's superiority? > > > > I am also doing my google research, but I'm asking if someone can point > > me to something like real hard evidence... > > > > Thanks, > > G. Depending on what you want to use the servers for, OpenBSD </backstory> What someone replied; Given that the amount of resources going into Linux kernel development over the past 10 years and moving forward is a vast ocean compared to the trickle of resources going into *BSD kernel development, for me, the choice of kernel is clear, as it is with many folks. The Linux kernel walks over over *BSD in too many categories to count. The *BSD kernels might walk all over the Linux kernel in only a couple of categories, if that. These projects are "hacks" in the true sense of the word. They are doing it to prove to themselves it can be done. It will be a very long time until either of these is production ready, if ever. Look at the Hurd project for a sobering reminder. It's 12 years old and still not close to its first release, let alone production ready. Probably never will be, again, due to developer resources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_GNU/Hurd Debian GNU/Hurd has been in development since 1998[1], but still has not been officially released. Over 60%[2] of the software packaged for Debian GNU/Linux has been ported to the GNU Hurd. However, the Hurd itself remains under development, and as such is not ready for use in production systems. The overwhelming majority of Debian users run Debian GNU/Linux, rather than Debian GNU/Hurd.
