From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 6:32:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from p2.cs.ohiou.edu (p2.cs.ohiou.edu [132.235.1.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70FE637B71A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 06:32:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu) Received: from localhost (frussell@localhost) by p2.cs.ohiou.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA07322; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:32:42 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: p2.cs.ohiou.edu: frussell owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:32:42 -0500 (EST) From: Russell Francis X-Sender: frussell@p2 To: Jesper Holmberg Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix In-Reply-To: <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > So my question to you would be: can you tell my just why I should hang > in there? Why do you prefer FreeBSD? What will I discover if I stay > that is not obvious at first sight? I recently switched from Linux to FreeBSD and must say I like it more, although it doesn't win in every category and here is why Things that make FreeBSD superior: - When upgrading on linux you must hunt around about 12-15 different sites trying to download new tools to work with the new kernel. This is a huge pain in the ass! esspecially for those that try to follow kernel development. CVSup is the best tool ever! - The ports collection makes tracking down the software you want to install as easy as "make install" I really love this. - My uptime went from about a week on Linux to never crashing with FreeBSD, I am still amazed at how much more stable it is! - Documentation is more centralized and reliable - The people on the mailing lists are a hell of alot more sane and level-headed, not quite as fanatical and in your face :-) Things that I was disappointed with: - SMP support, I can't put my finger on it but it seemed to work much better under Linux. - XMMS is known to get choppy and add pops to the song? pops in music when it switches songs too. If anyone knows why this is let me know. -Russ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message