Some hated the GPL, viewing it as less free (which is kind of true depending on who’s freedom you care about… personally I care about freedom of users and protecting society from large corporations, but you do you BSD fans).
Some disliked the crappy network stack (the superior UDP performance and IPv6 compliance were much touted at the time… although my own benchmarks didn’t confirm the BSD folks beliefs there). It may be hard to imagine with all of the innovation in networking layers that continues in Linux now, but that was the situation 20 or 25 years ago.
Further on networking, some disliked the ipchains/iptables (now nftables I guess) firewalling and whined constantly about how much better pf was. My firewalling needs have always been simple (except for whatever horrors Docker forces on me), so I never understood the rage.
Some complained about the terrible threading model in Linux (back before this was essentially solved in Linux, leaving Linux threading far superior to BSD threading).
Some pointed to the plethora of distributions as inferior to the obviously better model of the OS shipping with a blessed set of tools (think FreeBSD “base” or whatever).
Some bemoaned the lack of “jails” in Linux (essentially a primitive form of containers).
Anyway.
I think basically it was just annoyance that people used Linux instead of their favorite.
The only one i can understand is the complain with distributions tbh
The one about jails is stupid because containers exist and i don’t see how GPL gives less freedom, heck, i’d say that BSD is worse because when you contribute to a project, you are now giving free labor to companies…
Lots of different reasons.
Some hated the GPL, viewing it as less free (which is kind of true depending on who’s freedom you care about… personally I care about freedom of users and protecting society from large corporations, but you do you BSD fans).
Some disliked the crappy network stack (the superior UDP performance and IPv6 compliance were much touted at the time… although my own benchmarks didn’t confirm the BSD folks beliefs there). It may be hard to imagine with all of the innovation in networking layers that continues in Linux now, but that was the situation 20 or 25 years ago.
Further on networking, some disliked the ipchains/iptables (now nftables I guess) firewalling and whined constantly about how much better pf was. My firewalling needs have always been simple (except for whatever horrors Docker forces on me), so I never understood the rage.
Some complained about the terrible threading model in Linux (back before this was essentially solved in Linux, leaving Linux threading far superior to BSD threading).
Some pointed to the plethora of distributions as inferior to the obviously better model of the OS shipping with a blessed set of tools (think FreeBSD “base” or whatever).
Some bemoaned the lack of “jails” in Linux (essentially a primitive form of containers).
Anyway.
I think basically it was just annoyance that people used Linux instead of their favorite.
The only one i can understand is the complain with distributions tbh
The one about jails is stupid because containers exist and i don’t see how GPL gives less freedom, heck, i’d say that BSD is worse because when you contribute to a project, you are now giving free labor to companies…