choosing the right OS (Score 2)

(As my statement is quite general, it may be a little off-topic, but here we go...)

What seemed most important to me in this article was not the question FreeBSD vs. OpenBSD but: "Don't view OS's as a religion, because they are only tools. Nothing more. Use the best one for a given job and let it stay at that. [...]"

Whereas hardly any Windows-user really identifies with his OS, many U*IX-users tend to do so. (Hell, I also often do so... ;-)

This does not only increase the os-for-computer-nerds image, it may also make some gurus blind for problems of their OS where another OS already offers a good solution (that might be integrated easily).

So I was quite happy to read in this article that O'Gorman used a very conservative approach to choose the os that best meets his needs. If he had also considered Linux he would have made my day... ;-)