From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 15 19:46:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837A31065676 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:46:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@geniegate.com) Received: from geniegate.com (geniegate.com [65.18.174.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0128FC17 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:46:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from geniegate.com (geniegate.com [65.18.174.84]) by geniegate.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAFJAqXW066530 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:10:52 GMT (envelope-from joe@geniegate.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by geniegate.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id nAFJAqcc066529 for chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:10:52 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:50:51 -0600 From: Jamie To: chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091115145051.GJ3847@apollo.podro.com> References: <867htr3hre.wl%bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <867htr3hre.wl%bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: 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 19:46:42 -0000 On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:55:01AM +0900, 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! I ended up wiping freebsd and going with linux too. (for me, I needed audacity and I just could not make it work on freebsd for anything, not matter how hard I tried) Anyway, if you like freebsd ports, gentoo is OK. You can compile stuff with settings that apply to whatever YOU need instead of the generic settings. Slackware is nice & simple. (but can be hard to maintain) I don't recommend any of the debian variants, largely because you might have to deal with other debian people, it's like a cult culture or something over there, debiantology. The RPM stuff (fedora & redhat) seems really great at first, until it blows up and you're stuck in dependency hell. Perhaps they've improved that by now though. my corporate-ish clients use the RPM based linux because I haven't talked them into freebsd :-) Jamie -- http://www.geniegate.com Custom web programming Perl * Java * UNIX User Management Solutions