Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 31st Jan 2003 00:09 UTC
Well, we all have used Unix, in one form or another (maybe even through embeded products). But which one is your favorite flavor of Unix-based/Unix-alike OSes? Read more and vote! Update: SHAME on you, who ever you are: Messing/hacking with go2poll's code and altering the results in favor of FreeBSD. By doing so, you are doing MORE BAD than good to your favorite platform.
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Even though I strongly belive that *BSD is the better OS, I am quite happy that Linux has become the "popular" unix-like operating system. I feel that the popularity of Linux is harming the quality of it's code because the development is happening much too quickly and there are too many people contributing and therefore drawing Linux in too many directions at once. The *BSD code has been developed slowly and carefully over a much longer span of time. This allows the programmers to really think deeply about what they are doing and to produce higher quality code and fewer security issues and fewer bugs. I also want to believe that MacOS being based on *BSD will be a good thing in the long run, but time will tell.
As to whether an OS really is or isn't a Unix-based OS, you should refer to the "Unix family tree" at the following website.
http://www.levenez.com/
There is also a Windows family tree and a computer languages family tree, all of which are quite interesting.