From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 15 12:23:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CCE51065675 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:23:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C158FC20 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A7BADF7419; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:23:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:23:10 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Gary Kline Message-Id: <20100315082310.d35c6720.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20100314170049.GA55296@thought.org> References: <20100314170049.GA55296@thought.org> Organization: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Wow! ixsystems..... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:23:13 -0000 In response to Gary Kline : > > Folks, > > Late last night i finally surfed into the ixsystems pages. > WHile I haven't had a chance to check out the > price/performance ration and compare it to other sites [[or > maybe I'll do yet another roll-my-own]], I did happen on the > PCBSD link. It really does look like FreeBSD people who do > *not* wish to invest 101% of their lives getting > thing-to-work on the most stable OS ever. My one question > is: does at least everything that works under Ubuntu work > under PC BSD? I mean, things like setting my text fonts to > international? and being able to stream what streams {say, > "FRONTLINE" or NOVA} that PBS has. > > Can i drop in a CD or DVD that I got from my pvblic library > and have it play without mucking around creating mount-points > like /media/dvd/0 and /media/cd/0? This is the latest thing > to break with my 7.3RC.2. The sound-juicer doesn't recognize > my music CD whereas my Ubuntu does. In other words, is > PCBSD closer to the "Just-Works"{TM} side of things? There are forums and an active community for PCBSD. Those places are going to provide you a lot more feedback on questions like this. I don't _use_ PCBSD ... I have _tried_ it, and my experience has been very good. On an IBM laptop, everything just worked out of the box, and worked well. My problem is that I like to tweak, and I'm already happy with my ability to tweak FreeBSD :) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/