Date: 22 Dec 2002 20:50:36 +0100 From: Wouter Houweling <ww.houweling@zonnet.nl> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: BSD or Linux? Message-ID: <1040586636.43821.26.camel@work1.ziso.net>
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A few months ago, i decided to install SuSE 8.1 on my desktop (yeah, i confess ;), after working with FreeBSD for almost 2 years. At first i was quite suprised with the fact that everything worked out of the box, sound, playing meg's from mozilla etc. After a few days i got a little irritated because some programs started very slow (i.e evolution), or worked 'laggy'. When i wanted to add another user i couldn't find a proper way of doing it from the shell, my harddisks weren't accessible for normal users after an system update from the internet. Although these weren't big problems, i couldnt get them sorted out: just too many configuration files. The filesystem was a big mess, things lying all over the disk. Compiling other programs that weren't in the default distro were one big irritation, libs got lost, pathnames needed to be corrected. Also the whole system got very slow when copying large files. Booting took way longer then under FreeBSD. So, 2 months later, i have reinstalled my system with FreeBSD 4.7. Back too goold-old-BSD :) I love the fact that i know where my config's are, that they are stored in one place, that only whats really needed is running in the background, etc etc One question keeps bugging me though: why is gnulinux so much more popular then FreeBSD atm? Is the fact that Linux is 'hot' the reason they are (in my opinion) going in the wrong direction? Just wanted too share this with you guys :) greets, Wouter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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