Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:53:05 -0500 From: Allen <GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there anybody to use Linux? Message-ID: <200911151153.06335.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <867htr3hre.wl%bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> References: <867htr3hre.wl%bh@izb.knu.ac.kr>
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On Sunday 15 November 2009 10:55:01 am Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > Since FreeBSD's flash is not good, i'm considering to use linux box for > desktop, instead of FreeBSD. Please advice me about using Linux distro > like as Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora! > > Sincerely, I use both Linux and FreeBSD, so I may be of some help: First, I should point out that I've been hearing great things about FreeBSD 8 and Flash. Apparently the Flash for FreeBSD 8 is going to be a lot better. I too like to be able to watch Youtube and Myspace stuff, so it matters to me. As for a distro of Linux, well, that depends. I personally LOVE Slackware, Debian, and SUSE Linux. Those are the ones I'd recommend to someone who wanted to use it. Fedora is basically in my opinion crap. I don't like it, and I don't like Ubuntu. Neither one is really special or anything, but Slackware, being hat you're coming from BSD, should feel pretty much at right on. Debian is a great one too, and has APT to play with, and works fine with flash. Slackware will require you to grab the Flash thing yourself, but it works fine. SUSE works great, has a GREAT tool called "YAST2" which runs both in X and in a text terminal (Just type yast without the "2") and also it works out of the box a lot better than most of the corporate designed distros. It's got really good hardware support, and it finds things even Windows doesn't like to use. I've been using and talking about SUSE for a very long time because it's the best general purpose distro I've ever used. You can also download OpenSUSE for free which is also very nice. And it's a lot more stable than anything RedHat is going to give you. Anyway, if Flash is the only reason you're using it, you can either try FreeBSD 8, or, any Linux distro you like. I just personally would recommend either Debian, Slackware, or SUSE. -Allen -- http://www.myspace.com/farmacyofhorror Digital Horror Punk - Music I make! All done with LMMS All done with Linux and FreeBSD
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