Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 10:16:42 -0500 From: "Zane C. B-H." <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20120603101642.10310505@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> In-Reply-To: <CAPJF9wk6ojvKrzxV28dE_YwUN-qx0u-KvUiQXi4bQidgx_vA%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOgwaMvsv3e1TxDauV038Pp7LRiYeH7oAODE%2Bw-pxHt9oGrXMA@mail.gmail.com> <2730bd1bab4223e718193254cb8bbd60@dizum.com> <CADLo838vpbVP3caXG7LF7st4inWnMLi5zB3U1hD2dkXwf8ZLBg@mail.gmail.com> <20120601194621.GA83046@e-new.0x20.net> <4FC9DC69.6090907@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4FC9F245.8030300@digsys.bg> <CAPJF9wk6ojvKrzxV28dE_YwUN-qx0u-KvUiQXi4bQidgx_vA%2Bw@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 16:07:23 +0300 Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll try to be short. > I'm using FreeBSD both at servers and as a desktop, but I see > struggling of my friends with it in some things. > > 1. Ports mess. You can very easily render system unusable, or broken > if you trying to use latest ports. And then you had to became "a > port master" to fix all. Of course you need a lot of free time, > right? :) This is not a FreeBSD specific issue. Regardless of the OS in question, one needs to make sure to run it all in a test environment first before pushing it out. > 2. No decent packet manager (I hope pkgng will make life > easier). You can't just upgrade this and that packet and see what's > new, and rollback if you don't like somthing . Actually rolling back is completely possible as the ports tree is in a vcs. Just roll back to the last working version of a port you are having issues with and make sure it is set to not be updated next time up update the tree. > 3. "FreeBSD is not a linux" - so FreeBSD avoid linuxisms, like KMS > etc. And when it became crystal clear that progress is inevitable, > we need wait few more years to get new graphics working. Some time > ago, I read somewhere on wiki proud phrase "We are more linux than > linux itself", it was about LSB test or something similar. FreeBSD > can deny linux ways, but it's here, and it's widespread standard > (at least in comparing with FreeBSD). FreeBSD do really need those > fancy new techs, at least which related to X/hardware. XEN is one > more thing, which could be attractive, but there's not much > progress. I don't say let's rewrite all as in linux. I'm saying > about having copatibility layer a bit fresher. This is question of time of the people involved. I can't say I've seen any one saying new features like KMS should not be added because it is to Linux like. > <snip>
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20120603101642.10310505>