From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 11:31:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0FFA37B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:31:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA3195; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:36:43 -0800 Message-ID: <3AA7DE24.6AC57082@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 11:31:48 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Holmberg Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About Unix References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jesper Holmberg wrote: > 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 use both FreeBSD and Slackware Linux. I'm probably very different from most BSDers in that I'm not running a server. I use FreeBSD and Slackware for a home desktop machine. I use it for development, browsing the web and playing games. If you're running a server, FreeBSD is probably the best way to go. But if you're a desktop kind of guy, there's some drawbacks to FreeBSD. "Linuxisms" might never occur on a server only accessed through a remote shell. But for a desktop machine, they're a daily annoyance. Examples of linuxisms include a stupid looking penguin in your KDE menu (minor) to Konqueror not being able to use a Linux plugin like flash (major annoyance). But there are some great advantages that outweigh these annoyances. The ports/packages system is a gem among gems. The documentation is excellent. The configuration and layout makes sense. It's overall feel is one of cohesiveness rather than the typical Linux feel of a motley collection of unrelated parts. The number one advantage is cohesiveness and sensibility. The number one disadvantage is that the majority of applications are designed for Linux. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message