Quote:
|
Debian, Ubuntu and Redhat do not have funding issues.
|
RedHat is a commercial business, so how can you legitimately compare it to OpenBSD?
Besides, RedHat doesn't do much R&D on their own. IBM and Microsoft spend multi-billions per year in this arena, and even Apple is over $1 billion. Last info I could find was approx $90 million for RedHat. All they seem to do is look over sourceforge for something and include it. Their support is a joke and so is their operating system. It is a kludge of this-and-that and it isn't anywhere nearly as stable as commercial Solaris and AIX, or FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD.
RedHat gets "new" features, like Linux containers or whatever joke it is called in upcoming RHEL7, yet Solaris has had Zones since 2005, AIX has had LPARs since around 2001-2002, FreeBSD has had Jails since around 2000-2002. OpenBSD has supported new features applications like OpenSMTPD, pf, relayd, etc. Even RedHat's Satellite came from Kickstart. "New" features that RedHat touts have been in AIX and Solaris for years, even a decade in some cases.
Also consider that Sun spent $400 million developing Solaris 10, and RedHat spends a paltry amount for R&D. BSD's, Solaris, AIX are entire operating systems, kernel, user land, device drivers, all developed together and Linux is Frankenstein. AIX on Power is rock-solid. Solaris on Sparc is rock-solid. The BSDs on x86 are solid. RedHat on x86: not so much.
So you really want to point to RedHat or any Linux distro as a source for what OpenBSD or any BSD should do?