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Comment Re:Thanks (Score 1) 909

Agreed, the BSD man pages were miles ahead of the GNU ones, atleast at that time. The GNU man pages basically a little bit of description, followed by something along the lines of "These man pages are not maintained, please see the GNU info pages for more information". OpenBSDs man pages were really good with a lot of coding examples, it seemed about half of the commits to the repo was to the man pages. FreeBSD is a little bit behind on the number of examples, but are otherwise really good.

Comment Re:Thanks (Score 1) 909

Yes, I switched to OpenBSD and FreeBSD for different machines. Since then I've moved away from OpenBSD and have used FreeBSD on all machines, mainly because of OpenBSD development not being that active, lacking some features I wanted and FreeBSD getting some features from OpenBSD that I wanted.

FreeBSD and NetBSD were basically started at the same time in parallel as forks off of 386BSD, not as one forking off of the other.
OpenBSD split from NetBSD and DragonflyBSD split from FreeBSD because of two people Theo and Matthew Dillon.

Obviously you can't completely avoid hot heads anywhere in life, but atleast life is much better for me on the BSD-side.
Perhaps life was different in BSD 10 years ago, I don't know, maybe the developers have matured and/or the hot heads left. I couldn't care less. I care about the current state, and the FreeBSD community is a LOT less elitist and friendly than my experience with the linux one. Perhaps all the hot heads start developing on linux now a days.

Comment Re:Thanks (Score 5, Insightful) 909

I switched to *BSD 5-6 years ago, the reason being that the community was more relaxed and there was less politics. I've been really happy, the users are more informed and the developers are more eager to help out and less elitist. The best technical solution is chosen and there is way less "not invented here" attitude among the developers. The development is more structured and is not based on the opinions/goals of a single person.

Comment Re:Because... (Score 1) 443

So, after taxes and necessary payments you have about 63% of your salary left.

My net income after taxes (in Sweden) is about 74% of my gross income. Granted I don't have as high salary (about a third of your), meaning I pay a lower percentage in taxes.
The big downside is having a lot of highly educated developers to compete with, driving down the salaries.

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