Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:59:54 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: William Tracy <afishionado@gmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? Message-ID: <C15AD8AA.1A434%ceri@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <af8b40ce0610151526h6aba1785mb77eb2a76e69fdfa@mail.gmail.com>
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On 15/10/06 23:26, "William Tracy" <afishionado@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay.
>
> I've installed FreeBSD on my desktop. I got KDE working, and Amor is
> running so I have a little daemon sitting on my window. I can mount my
> USB card reader and open the pictures from my digital camera in Gimp.
> I can browse the web in Firefox. I even compiled my own kernel so that
> I'm all 1337. :-)
>
> Overall, I like FreeBSD--the kernel build process felt a lot smoother
> than Linux, the /boot and /sys file heirarchies makes more sense to me
> than /boot and /usr/src under Linux, and the /dev heirarchy seems
> sane, though it's still pretty alien to me. So far, everything I do
> under Linux I can do under FreeBSD.
>
> FreeBSD is nice, but I haven't seen anything really *compelling* about
> it. FreeBSD might be more stable as a server, but for my desktop Linux
> has proven more than stable enough. (X crashes sometimes, but FreeBSD
> can't really fix that.) The extra file flags look intersting, but
> otherwise I haven't seen anything that I can do under FreeBSD that I
> can't with Linux.
>
> So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD
> can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back.
It'll come. Day by day, and slowly at first, but one day you will go back
and it will feel wrong.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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