From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 15 16:55:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A99D106566B for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:55:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gedankezauberer@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8583E8FC08 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.11]) by QMTA13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 5ToW1d0030EPchoADUvrVd; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:55:51 +0000 Received: from debianbox.local ([76.112.93.25]) by OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 5Uvp1d0060Yq9Sc8MUvqNi; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:55:51 +0000 From: Allen To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:53:05 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <867htr3hre.wl%bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: <867htr3hre.wl%bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200911151153.06335.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Is there anybody to use Linux? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:55:51 -0000 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