From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 10:30:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A881065670 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:30:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mlerota@claresco.hr) Received: from eu1sys200aog108.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog108.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B61FB8FC0A for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from source ([74.125.82.49]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob108.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKTZMGME2StARQXrEA1QiX6Ctj6875wrkM@postini.com; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:30:10 UTC Received: by mail-ww0-f49.google.com with SMTP id 39so1117939wwb.30 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.172.15 with SMTP id s15mr469996wel.70.1301481008356; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cosmos.claresco.hr (zid.claresco.hr [89.201.163.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x1sm2934563wbh.53.2011.03.30.03.30.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:30:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Marko Lerota To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <4D917B7B.1020106@FreeBSD.org> (Doug Barton's message of "Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:26:03 -0700") Organization: *BSD Users - Fanatics Dept. References: <20110329013223.ddca7453.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> <4D917B7B.1020106@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAJFBMVEWgnbRLVpRNVY9jMRPh s21jSlEyNVX45Mv4zI+sbUclFAtMVpT8V0lFAAACZ0lEQVR4nG3Tv2vbQBQHcFMogWyeNeVK BLXGl5j6xnABOaNTuXFGmWpwtw519yj4soW6AatT4GKD3+aDZrl/rt/Tr9qlGiz7Pn7v3bsf HVc/NrIiSfElqH53GgijcCqzk/+AmBF5cN0DsFlIRGMh/oHuqxkTM6VlzB4EoZEs2aSZOASb EQJYZpweQshE697GTDndBXtgp9LIT9+OpDGHEfb9knk+nx+jfN1JCVZMCl6XwFm0a2EXztZD 3s4fj47ZbKI2VeBmJImeEfGLJ+M9sDPilX7IB5rN6sdfcGhuoHU+LC4nxfnI7YOJtdb95Gb+ fbgJ2uJ2ZgaA++f5ZzBqNCCYfMTd5q0BfBVNqm7I8gUjQ+YtXotRW6PH9AEj+dKs/KuNQAl5 o/NY+QkonW8aQAl0oXMYPvRiXIM4pRJifbXytnhTA8alBx/jefG2ar3DBlt34/PXz9M+nMVN iNaPUdCApJc2ItejOmLGoK1qQLV9pJmXBnL10DYoBA5aHNfj8ZNwZa5O4CzgTJeilKJmrQJs IHIt1/7/Sg2p3iq/Hz0/5W05rq4M9aN2B5FLohUP4ylVyfxhEIjAs8J4PhIJ9U+CEroogib5 BXAf7bB4vkfAzgPFt1tM9sJZAOH+lCexhwswuNtim4QTZdokqo4o89LkH7V6iFxICeqfp+Wh fmUuGPunLj2Meti6Cn4DjJ/UReROqR+aqawAi/JkfgKE64rrfkhjU8MtT8ivR4S5n6Yo08A7 HvgAlHDWRSGlNSDxwK9HtXy4FS2I60EdUIJM+Ut9OZNJG4CpbEQW1VBQoQoPuBw2EVa4P0u0 TgzQF+VoAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:30:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87tyek99zb.fsf@cosmos.claresco.hr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jason Hsu , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:30:10 -0000 Doug Barton writes: >> Are there any good tutorials for using BSD on the desktop? > > Simple answer, if your only goal is to have a Unix-like desktop, > you're better off sticking with Linux. FreeBSD is not really focused > on desktop use, whereas a lot of the Linux distributions are, and if > you're happy with the ones you are using there is no good reason to > switch. I agree with that. I had problems with Flash on AMD64 so sometimes I couldn't watch Youtube videos :-). And that's not good at all :-). I'm now using Linux as a desktop, and I'm not completely satisfied with it. But all the servers are on FreeBSD, and I'm completely satisfied with this. -- Marko Lerota Sent from my Gnus Mailer