From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 15 22:57:50 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 758DE16A412 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:57:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE1443D6D for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:57:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p77so1672718nfc for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:57:33 -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=aJGO8G7MdwZEfC3HkI9rrcOKIxqLKpP0EfFi3Sq8RFRW2qAljSDLXJno/r2oVZhCYbSGQL3i0sMtuW06XSawQ/cSS/qqwplbv4OgLcz8XscMs2tkzsAMrt1T7DVKSJmyZ8PMjz0Up4FX6Np21sXkFjWgGypWUXDprEGKI7aGgeY= Received: by 10.78.201.8 with SMTP id y8mr6986154huf; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:57:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.173.8 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:57:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <70e8236f0610151557m441baf19ma2ffc0cf504f4edb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:57:32 +0100 From: "Joao Barros" To: "William Tracy" In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0610151546y2e644b4ajb3f86de5bff6179a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <70e8236f0610151546y2e644b4ajb3f86de5bff6179a@mail.gmail.com> 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 22:57:50 -0000 On 10/15/06, Joao Barros wrote: > 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 ;-) Ok, make that 3: Ports I really don't miss rpm hell. -- Joao Barros