On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 10:12 +0530, Siju George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the Universities in India is going to include teaching the BSD
> kernel in their syllabus.
> Unfortunately this has been met with quite irrational opposition from
> some Linux Junkies ( dirty politics ). Inorder to compile better
> report and statistics to defend BSD it would be great if these
> informatio can be gathered :-)

"Teaching", with quotes because that ain't teaching but forcing, only a
single OS to students is the most zealottish thing one can do.
The 'irrational' part is that apparently both the "Linux Junkies" and
you as apparently a "BSD Zaelot" want to force their own thing down the
throats of the students. Clearly you also have no real answer why your
"BSD is much better than that Linux junk". Ever thought of the fact that
that depends completely on the application where one is using something?
Don't use a spoon (that might not even exist to eat your
french^Wliberty fries and don't use a fork to eat your soup...

Every OS design has it's specific strong and weak points, students
should learn all of them so they can pick themselves what is the best
combination available. I suggest you take a look at "Operating System
Concepts" from Silberschatz & Galvin:

eg: http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/os-book/os7/

This covers all kind of OS's, ranging from the BSD's to Mach and even
Windows.

There is another excellent OS book(*), but I am a Dinosaur-Junky thus
only recommend this one

Greets,
Jeroen

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* = Operating Systems Design and Implementation by Andrew Tanenbaum et
al.

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