Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:14:17 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter <noc@hdk5.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Linux distro Message-ID: <47BB2A89.1050604@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: <20080219154929.GA91805@demeter.hydra> References: <276406.27436.qm@web51105.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20080219114803.V2675@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1203419902.6470.80.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20080219125031.R2835@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1203423219.6470.86.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20080219154929.GA91805@demeter.hydra>
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Chad Perrin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:13:39PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:51 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >>>>> by not being linux at all. >>>>> >>>> FreeBSD is more a server than a desktop system. Ubuntu particularly is >>>> >>> FreeBSD isn't both desktop or server system. it is just unix - it depends >>> from the user how it's being used. >>> >> True. But looking at it from a newbie point of view the statement helps >> give it perspective. I have to translate for people all the time and I >> know this works. >> >> We all know that FreeBSD whoops linux's ass, but as to how it does this >> is beyond most newer users. :P >> > > The way you phrased it makes it sound like FreeBSD is simply unsuited to > use as a desktop system. Contrary to that impression, I'm sending this > from a Thinkpad laptop with FreeBSD on it, and it's by far the best > "desktop" OS I've ever had the pleasure to use. > > Aloha, I use 3 FreeBSD Destops and 1 old Dell laptop, all with XFCE 3 GUI all the time. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + noc@hdk5.net + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol
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