From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 17 01:02:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A9D16A403 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:02:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andersgo@alge.anart.no) Received: from alge.anart.no (alge.anart.no [195.159.18.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 048BA43D45 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:02:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andersgo@alge.anart.no) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (andersgo@alge.anart.no [195.159.18.67]) by alge.anart.no (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k9H11uQk013213 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:01:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <45342B88.4020904@alge.anart.no> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:02:00 +0200 From: Anders Gulden Olstad User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061016) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:02:02 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 William Tracy wrote: > So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD > can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. I like the separation of the complete OS and third part software in Ports Collection. I love the ability to upgrade from one major release to another using source upgrade - without doing a complete reinstall, as with the Linux distros I've used. I went straight from 5.4-> 6.1 without any hassle. The EOL schedule for Fedora is almost killing me, and every new release means a complete reinstall - in practice. I boot FreeBSD far more often than Linux these days. What I still lack is getting my Bluetooth and GPRS Cellphone dial-up link running...and VMWare. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Grunbacher Altweizen Dunkel Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFNCuBMVyOPWVstbURAjWiAJ9CDp3WNGSWFx9niATeZqS6pMXi1ACgisLw 65BUC1BOi0RoHGY6XEEg0tA= =eQ/H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----