Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 25th Feb 2007 05:54 UTC, submitted by Valour
It's been a long road to recovery, but after years of mediocre releases, and months of delays in the development process, FreeBSD is finally back on its feet with 6.2-RELEASE. Though it is an excellent operating system, even this latest version offers few or no competitive advantages over Solaris or the other BSDs in a server role, and can never hope to compete with commercial GNU/Linux distributions for desktop computers. FreeBSD 6.2 is what FreeBSD 5.0 needed to be, and for those who have already switched to other operating systems, there are few or no compelling reasons to go back. More here.
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2007-02-25
That was a interesting read about why OpenBSD uses pf over ipf. That is one thing I am happy Sun did with Solaris 10, and that is use ipf. In the past I used Linux and ipchains, and then iptables. Then when I started using Solaris 10, I began using ipf. IPF was so much cleaner in syntax of the rules then either ipchains or iptables. IPF is a pleasure to use. The rules can get long when you also have the rules for your Zones in the same ipf.conf file. So having the syntax clean and easy to read is good.
That is one thing I am happy Solaris 10 took from the BSD's, and that is the ipf firewall. The previous Sun firewall (Sunscreen, cool name ha-ha) I didn't like.
So the fact FreeBSD is porting Dtrace and ZFS to itself is a good thing. This is what makes Open Source so great, people can share those great features around. This is why I have great respect for Sun for doing this (embracing open source), and most users should respect them for doing this. You don't see HP or IBM doing this (with HP-UX or AIX). The way HP and IBM embrace open source is pushing Linux, but not opening their own products. But at least they are helping open source in some way by pushing Linux.