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How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

Can anyone explain the discontinuities in the FreeBSD plots?

Well, the drop-offs of FreeBSD in a couple of the graphs can be explained by him not reading the docs.

Can anyone explain the discontinuities in the FreeBSD plots?

Well, the drop-offs of FreeBSD in a couple of the graphs can be explained by him not reading the docs.

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. I mean are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

Personally I think the divine Ceren deserves an icon all of her own.

No, as in faster and more scalable, supporting more hardware - devices and architectures, and not generating reams of useless verbiage about "really, we're better than Linux".

Hows that for starters?

Gosh, as a courtesy, you should really give Yahoo, NetCraft and the rest of these folks this important advice.

The last time I compiled 5.1-CURRENT

Please make some kind of token effort to learn at least something about the operating system before trying to run it:

As you read this, keep in mind that FreeBSD-CURRENT is the ``bleeding edge'' of FreeBSD development. FreeBSD-CURRENT users are expected to have a high degree of technical skill, and should be capable of solving difficult system problems on their own. If you are new to FreeBSD, think twice before installing it.

Let's see, you installed the bleeding edge branch of the most experimental version of FreeBSD and, oh my gosh, it crashed. Go figure. FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE is not a snapshot of your -CURRENT after two more days of development! -CURRENT is the ongoing development branch.

If you would like to try FreeBSD (and please do!), for god's sake get a copy of 5.1-RELEASE, or at least 5.1-STABLE. And be prepared to have to learn a bit about how it works, and its release cycle. FreeBSD is not Linux, nor does it always work the same or follow the same development and naming conventions.

People still quote this document as if it had some sort of relevance: http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html

FreeBSD 4.8 is more stable than 4.7. And 4.9 will likely be more stable than 4.8.

I'm sure 5.1 is more stable than 5.0 but 5.1 is not intended to be more stable than the 4.x series (yet), and nobody working on it claims that it is. That's why it's called a "new technology" release. And 4.8 is called the "production" release. That's also why I run 4.8 on my servers at work, but will consider putting 5.1 on my home PC.

FreeBSD 5.x will eventually be better and more stable than the 4.x series, maybe at 5.2, maybe later. Until then, I'm sure the FreeBSD project will continue to recommend all over the place the 4.x series to anyone who needs an absolutely rock-solid release:

FreeBSD 5.X marks the first new major version of FreeBSD in over two years. Besides a number of new features, it also contains a number of major developments in the underlying system architecture. Along with these advances, however, comes a system that incorporates a tremendous amount of new and not-widely-tested code. Compared to the existing line of 4.X releases, the first few 5.X releases may have regressions in areas of stability, performance, and occasionally functionality.

For these reasons, the Release Engineering Team specifically discourages users from updating from older FreeBSD releases to 5.1-RELEASE unless they are aware of (and prepared to deal with) possible regressions in the newer releases. Specifically, for more conservative users, we recommend running 4.X releases (such as 4.8-RELEASE) for the near-term future. We feel that such users are probably best served by upgrading to 5.X only after a 5-STABLE development branch has been created; this may be around the time of 5.2-RELEASE.

That's from the Early Adopter's Guide if you would like to learn what the actual release cycle for FreeBSD is, and which versions are recommended for whom.

It would be nice to read some interesting comments about a FreeBSD article occassionally, rather than the endless "FreeBSD is dying" and "I installed FreeBSD 5.0 and it crashed a lot" drivel. Those are literally about the only comments posted under every FreeBSD article on Slashdot.

FreeBSD isn't Linux. Some things about FreeBSD are different than Linux. FreeBSD doesn't use Linux version numbers and schemes; it uses FreeBSD version numbers and schemes. Some releases of FreeBSD are extremely stable. Some are development versions and have bugs and crash. Figure out which one you need and use it. Or don't. I don't care. I think it's a great, well organized, rock-solid OS and I use it on my servers because I think those characteristics are important. I could care less if Linux is more popular than FreeBSD. My servers aren't in high school, for gods sake, trying to get a prom date.

I think Linux is also a great OS, although not as good as FreeBSD in my humble opinion. If you think Linux meets your needs beter, use it. But don't download the latest CVS version of the latest experimental version of FreeBSD, expect it to be crash proof, and then go rip on BSD on Slashdot. For that, I stick my tongue out at you, sir. Phtttttt.

Nice review. Non-FreeBSD users can get a feel for where FreeBSD is in the FreeBSD 5.1 i386 Release Notes

Ciaran O'Riordan

here

Unix, lets call it "hasuseraclue()" [1]. ...
[1] Note: by reverse engineering the code, we know that above system call return 0 when ran on the system of the author of the previous paper.

Shouldn't it return -1 and set errno to EDOOFUS

It seems that Microsoft had lost it's momentum. Next edition in 3 years, when Samba is faster than Windows Server 2003, Mozilla is better than Internet Explorer 6, and GNU/Linux is rapidly conquesting desktops may mean only one thing: when Longhorn will finally be released, world will be dominated by Open Source Software.
Constant evolution in hardware due to Moore's Law, kicks forward software evolution and Microsoft apparently don't care.
Given the current speed of adding features to GNU/Linux and FreeBSD I have no doubts that Longhorn will be long behind competion when it'll be released in 2006.

a)
1. Find name of package you need
2. Find the package
3. Download package you need
4. Build package you need
5. Find and download any and all dependencies (the real time consumption)
6. make install

The order is more like this.
a) to build from source
1. Find name of package (either via `cd /usr/ports && make search name=packagename`) or though browsing the online ports collection.
2. cd to the port dir
3. `make install clean`

b) to get pre-compiled source
1. Find name of package (either via `cd /usr/ports && make search name=packagename`) or though browsing the online ports collection.
2. `pkg_add -rv packagename`

For example I can install kde in either 5-10 mins or 2-3 hours. The FreeBSD has many more options and is very powerful. A look at the ports man page and all of the pkg_* tool's man pages would revel alot of extra usage.

Two useful articles from onlamp:
Ports Tricks
Cleaning and Customizing Your Ports

a)
1. Find name of package you need
2. Find the package
3. Download package you need
4. Build package you need
5. Find and download any and all dependencies (the real time consumption)
6. make install

The order is more like this.
a) to build from source
1. Find name of package (either via `cd /usr/ports && make search name=packagename`) or though browsing the online ports collection.
2. cd to the port dir
3. `make install clean`

b) to get pre-compiled source
1. Find name of package (either via `cd /usr/ports && make search name=packagename`) or though browsing the online ports collection.
2. `pkg_add -rv packagename`

For example I can install kde in either 5-10 mins or 2-3 hours. The FreeBSD has many more options and is very powerful. A look at the ports man page and all of the pkg_* tool's man pages would revel alot of extra usage.

Two useful articles from onlamp:
Ports Tricks
Cleaning and Customizing Your Ports

Don't worry, the only person getting frustrated about Linux (other than you) is this guy. Ha ha.

Don't worry, the only person getting frustrated about Linux (other than you) is this guy. Ha ha.

> Nor does it reflect the Unix based OS that you get with the Mac.

UNIX UNIX UNIX

It might be the fastest and it might be UNIX, but it still has the gayest, most unintuitive, most non-keyboard-centric user interface ever designed. Oh, that and the fact that there is no longer a start/apple menu so all you applications are crammed onto a long bar at the bottom with no text description.

According to a section from the GNU Coding Standards, the GNU system is supposed to be a BSD clone: "With occasional exceptions, utility programs and libraries for GNU should be upward compatible with those in Berkeley Unix" in preference to System V. So now that *BSD is free, has the GNU OS project (apart from GCC, which *BSD uses) lost much of its reason for being?

eliminating all "broken" packages - a "broken" package is one that
does not build, install or de-install cleanly (as determined by bulk
builds on NetBSD/i386)..

Anyone have any details on this Bulk Builds? Is this like FreeBSD bento automated builds?

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

As someone else noted (in an article with a link done as text, not as an , and with an extra blank in it), Mac OS X has a possibly-interesting scheme for starting and stopping system services. Here's the section on System Initialization in the Mac OS X online documentation; in particular, look at the Startup Items stuff.

It's a dependency-based scheme, like at least some of the other proposed system services mechanisms; see the section on adding your own startup items.

Note also that Boring Old Init isn't itself changed; /etc/rc runs SystemStarter as its last act, and that starts up the system services. SystemStarter can also be used as a command to start, stop, or restart services, so this isn't just a system startup mechanism.

NetBSD 1.5 and later have a new rc-based system for controlling services; it's also dependency-based. FreeBSD 5.x has rcNG, which is derived from the NetBSD scheme.

(Note that all of those systems have a BSD-style init, and thus don't have run levels.)

Those schemes don't address one of Seth's complaints, however - according to his description in his blog, he doesn't like having shell script wrappers doing the configuration, he wants it done in the service's process itself:

In other news, reshaped SystemServices around the futile, idealistic goal of having daemons contribute the servicesinstead of silly little shell script wrappers in the future. Ever poked through RH's /etc/init.d/ scripts? Its absurd... they do so much stuff in there that should be included in the bloomin' C code. If you need a check for something, just have the program itself do it.... But of course, these programs were designed to be run with lots of magic brittle flags rather than running and situating themselves intelligently.

(I express no opinion on this one way or the other; if you like or don't like the idea, send bouquets or brickbats to him, not me.)

Note also that it appears that he is not designing something just for desktops - in particular, he says:

The boot process: So first the kernel loads itself, and calls ServiceManager (instead of "init"). The ServiceManager starts the DBus service manually,

and checks to see if it should be doing a graphical bootup. If it should be, it starts the GraphicalLogin service (which of course may have dependencies to start first).

Now, whether the kernel should start ServiceManager directly, or whether it should continue to run init and have ServiceManager started from an rc file, is another issue; I'm not sure that there's a compelling argument to eliminate init other than to discourage people from continuing to use the current rc script scheme (which might be Seth's motivation for running ServiceManager as process 1 - he might want to discourage rc script tweaking).

Perhaps one of the reasons why people thought of ServiceManager as being purely for desktop systems is that they thought that, as D-BUS is somewhat associated with freedesktop.

I just checked the Ports collection for FreeBSD. WHERE THE FUCK IS THE HL-2 PORT!?

Personally, I plan to switch when 5.2 is released, though. Mostly for the filesystem snapshots and background fsck. I too use FBSD 5 on my personal workstation and have scince 5.0-RELEASE, without any problems, so I don't worry too much.

Virtualization rocks for that kind of things. I happily use FreeBSD jails for that. They work on a different level and have different goals, but giving each (group of) user(s) their own sandbox to play with is definitly a really cool thing, both for admins and for the users themselves.

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

It is still at least 1.5 months until 4.9 is released, according to the release schedule, and generally the FreeBSD team will accept delays in the interest of stability and not rush out something half-baked. 5.0 has been delayed more than one year, IIRC. During such a timeframe, certain other free Unix-like OSes change half of your supposedly stable kernel under your back and accidentally eat your file systems three times without bumping the minor version number.

Man, where are you living? SCO is not attacking IBM or SGI (well, not in the first place), they are attacking the penguin using loads of FUD. If you look better, you may see it's the trident-armed daemon and his friends who are getting bigger and bigger ;-).

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

IPFW

Dunno what Linux guys do, though. I'm sure they have something equally groovy.

Since when is googlefs new? I've been using it for ages on my FreeBSD box.

$ mount
/dev/ad0s1a on / (googlefs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/ad0s1e on /tmp (googlefs, local)
/dev/ad0s1f on /usr (googlefs, local)
/dev/ad0s1d on /var (googlefs, local)
$

This OS supports "HighPoint HPT366 ATA66, HPT370 ATA100, HPT372 ATA133, HPT374 ATA133." SoS does an excellent job of maintaining the ATA RAID drivers, and is innovating all the time.

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

POSIX provides only source-level compatibility. Writing POSIX-compliant code, together with some autoconf sorcery can make you as compatible as it goes these days, but sometimes source compatibility just isn't enough -- most commercial applications do not come in source format.

There was binary compatibility module called iBCS (an Intel initiative for cross-compatibility between Intel-based Unix OSs) which failed to take off because vendors kept adding extensions to their Unix which never made their way into iBCS. And of course, running something in a different platform than its original one may require tons of runtime support (check FreeBSD's Linux binary support).

freebsd vs linux vs windows

FreeBSD with Linux compat libraries faster than Linux? How so? This guy doesn't think so.

Cool, I've wanted to see a FreeBSD vs Linux benchmark. What is FreeBSD faster in? This guy would like to know as well.

Check out the work that is being done on trustedbsd.org, which is based on (and being backported into) FreeBSD 5.X. Also, although not as well documented, FreeBSD 5.X has a storage abstraction layer called GEOM, upon which is built GBDE, "GEOM-Based Disk Encryption". A status report is located here but the FreeBSD email archives are currently the best place to find this information.

1. Hardware Support: If a vendor chooses to support a piece of hardware for a BSD OS (beyond Windows, Mac and maybe Linux) then most likely it will be FreeBSD.
2. Jails: Man page
3. Applications: FreeBSD has way more ports than OpenBSD. Whether someone uses most of them or not is another topic, but chances are what you need you will probably find ported for FreeBSD already
4. FreeBSD 5.* onward: Nuff said

Sorry about being off topic.
To the guy I got into an argument with, and subsequently won: what do you think about this? eh?
Yep, just show me one comparison in the last six months in which FreeBSD beats Linux. What was that? You have nothing?
Thought so.