From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 19 10:55:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6FC16A41F for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:55:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BD843D46 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:55:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from epia2.farid-hajji.net (epia-2 [192.168.254.11]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE59DD76B; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:53:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:56:07 +0100 From: cpghost To: Mathias Menzel-Nielsen Message-ID: <20060119105607.GA40862@epia2.farid-hajji.net> References: <7349.212.160.155.37.1137518111.squirrel@poczta.b.win.pl> <43CD3F73.2040003@matzsoft.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43CD3F73.2040003@matzsoft.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux 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: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:55:51 -0000 On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:03:15PM +0100, Mathias Menzel-Nielsen wrote: > My hardware is fully supported by FreeBSD and in fact some of it was > supported earlier on FreeBSD than on Linux. > For example, the Brooktree bktr(4) Video-Capture driver existed first on > FreeBSD, also high-speed cd-burning was > not possible on Linux without eating all available cpu-time, before > kernel 2.6 -- at that time FreeBSD burned my cd's > at 52x-speed without noticeable cpu-usage. Multimedia was always a > glance on FreeBSD -- dvd-playback/record, > xvid-encoding, tv-capturing, blender -- all ever worked like a champ. > Additionally to that, i would never move back to a linux distro, simply > because their archaic package-management > is not half as reliable in day-to-day-use as the FreeBSD ports tree. I > am running the same FreeBSD install since 4.9 > and it was easy and non-problematic to update to even major release > changes. Even if that criticism doesnt apply > as much to gentoo, which has some good efforts to use a "ports-tree" > under Linux, I just prefer the original :) Same here. Using FreeBSD as a multimedia workstation and very happy with it. There are still a few shortcomings though, like missing MIDI recording (not playback) functionality and no support for my Pinnacle DC10+ Zoran video capture card; but if I need that, I'd just dual-boot into gentoo (which *does* feel a lot like FreeBSD from an admin POV and the main reason I picked that distro, just to feel more at home), do whatever is needed, and then reboot into FreeBSD. Not ideal, but workable. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/