Quote from: muad_dib on June 20, 2011, 08:34:56 PM

Quote from: iCEBREAKER on June 20, 2011, 07:46:32 PM

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BSD is designed. Linux is grown.

This is such a beautiful sentence.

When developing some serial drivers for a vending machines running linux, me and my team went crazy handling all the hacks, specifications and modules the kernel had. It is just a bloated monster, on a driver I found a comment:

"We don't know why it is this way, but please dont touch it"

The server controlling the vending machines instead run on FreeBSD and its much tidier and organized kernel space has been a pleasure to work with.

comments like that is because of some old hacks on very old buggy hardware, these types of comments is also in the FreeBSD sourcecode.
some people would also find it easier to run windows xp on your vending machine.
i have read most of the core code in Linux and Freebsd. and i found that linux's source is simpler.
while freeBSD kind of difficult to understand sometimes.
it just my opinion.