From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 15 22:47:06 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 62AFD16A47B for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:47:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681CD43D7B for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:46:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p77so1670440nfc for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:46:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=j6Z70y0eokkL74L49FnmMlNI3Y+4fowwQC3Q4paKDd5NEW6wjAQa+VxLG9wAFbbWBqwIVgOYjNDbNtcPEFzltTR281DJh9k5bCaaHt2FVTXfrPrKq6V0m0EXWhMWI7LRsacFeOkzMhk9DczLQKPd/RmmzoshTzRSqVad65dlRVU= Received: by 10.78.127.2 with SMTP id z2mr6985951huc; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.173.8 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <70e8236f0610151546y2e644b4ajb3f86de5bff6179a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:46:51 +0100 From: "Joao Barros" To: "William Tracy" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? 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: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:47:06 -0000 On 10/15/06, William Tracy wrote: > Okay. > > I've installed FreeBSD on my desktop. I got KDE working, and Amor is > running so I have a little daemon sitting on my window. I can mount my > USB card reader and open the pictures from my digital camera in Gimp. > I can browse the web in Firefox. I even compiled my own kernel so that > I'm all 1337. :-) > > Overall, I like FreeBSD--the kernel build process felt a lot smoother > than Linux, the /boot and /sys file heirarchies makes more sense to me > than /boot and /usr/src under Linux, and the /dev heirarchy seems > sane, though it's still pretty alien to me. So far, everything I do > under Linux I can do under FreeBSD. > > FreeBSD is nice, but I haven't seen anything really *compelling* about > it. FreeBSD might be more stable as a server, but for my desktop Linux > has proven more than stable enough. (X crashes sometimes, but FreeBSD > can't really fix that.) The extra file flags look intersting, but > otherwise I haven't seen anything that I can do under FreeBSD that I > can't with Linux. > > So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD > can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. > > William Tracy Well, I guess you can ask yourself some questions: - Is there something now that you can't do but were able to using Linux (or vice-versa) ? - Hardware support (might fit the previous question) - Is performance better/worse ? - Your global experience with it: installation, usage, documentation, support. >From my experience, I was using linux before FreeBSD, but I always felt curiosity to test it. My first try was with 5.0 and although slow at the time (processing apache logs with awstats) I loved it. Two things come out shining: it's a complete OS not a kernel glued with userland and libraries and the documentation is supreme. Just my 2 euro cents ;-) -- Joao Barros