Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:52:05 -0600 From: Chris Conn <cmc3list-bsd@yahoo.com> To: Raymond Pasco <ray@cultofray.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Venting my frustration with FreeBSD Message-ID: <45757985.1080706@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061205021552.GA16048@lambda.cultofray.net> References: <774463.66161.qm@web51814.mail.yahoo.com> <200612041621.50857.fcash@ocis.net> <20061205021552.GA16048@lambda.cultofray.net>
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Raymond Pasco wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:21:50PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: >> Something I can't stand on Linux systems is that there is no concept of >> a "base OS" separate from "installed apps". Everything is a mish-mash >> under /usr and /etc. And don't get me started on the mess that is /var. > If I had to pick one *single* reason why I use FreeBSD, that > "separation" is it. Everything else is just cake under the icing. When I started working at IBM in 1997 I heard of Linux and thought, hmmm, that sounds interesting. One of my co-workers said "try FreeBSD, it's more like AIX". So I started with FreeBSD and later converted one of my PCs to use Slackware Linux too just do I'd have a feel for it, ran both for a few years. Over the years I stopped using Linux and stayed with FreeBSD. I don't mind Linux and IBM has done some great things with it (the product I support is built from Linux) but as a personal system FreeBSD just feels right to me, and I feel a strong loyalty to the project. Right now I'm using FreeBSD with Cygwin, gave my monitor to my kids so I have a little notebook running Win2K and can use Cygwin as an X Server to switch over to my FreeBSD box where I run Window Maker and have my music collection. I'm using Win2K for my mail because Thunderbird is a bit slower on the FreeBSD side (this is probably a limitation of Cygwin not FreeBSD). But otherwise it's a great setup. Sometime next year I'll probably buy a monitor to act as a 'head' for my FreeBSD box again :-). Chris in Austin
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