Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:00:03 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Claude Menski <claude.menski@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I like Ubuntu Message-ID: <20070413183656.E73976@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <86mz1ckqlc.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <2a4057fc0704131021t60249c62k4107ee6cf9f1fb8f@mail.gmail.com> <86mz1ckqlc.fsf@dwp.des.no>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Claude Menski" <claude.menski@gmail.com> writes: >> Why is freebsd better then ubuntu? > > I like Ubuntu too. If you want a desktop OS that Just Works and > doesn't require a lot of time to configure and keep up-to-date, it's a > good choice. > > On the server side, however, I find that it is FreeBSD rather than > Linux which Just Works and lets you do excatly what you want without > any fuss. I find that once you get into the little details, Linux is > an appalling mess of disparate components thrown together with no > apparent plan or purpose. It gets even worse when you start looking > into the kernel source... No abstraction, no modularization, and very > little consistency. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I think it is also true that depending on your hardware a FreeBSD workstation or laptop can be a bit of a challenge. For me, coming from mainframe-land, I learned more about FreeBSD and Unix from having to solve these problems and/or work around old hardware than I ever would have just administering my server farm.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070413183656.E73976>