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FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #2
noackjr writes "'The FreeBSD Project is proud to announce the availability of the second Developer Preview snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0 (5.0-DP2). This
snapshot, intended for widespread testing purposes, is the latest milestone towards the eventual release of FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE, currently scheduled for mid-December 2002.' See the announcement, early adopter's guide, and the release notes."
"Why use FreeBSD when Linux seems to work better, and have greater support at the same time? "
1.Ports
2.Packages
3.easy update (make buildworld etc..)
4.The Devil not that fat fucking penguin
Gentoo linux takes care of 1-3. Yeah the penguin is a fag.. I agree.
I guess that's one more reason to run PostgreSQL, the superior opensource relational database. It certainly runs stable and fast under FreeBSD.
Hello welcome to the year 2002. In this century ease of use and friendly graphical user interfaces are the norm. Text mode was fine in the 80 and early 90's but the rest of us have moved on to GUI's. Its called progress and makes computers more accessible to the rest of us who just want to sit down and get our work done, not become computer experts.
Its fine if you want to stick to text only, but don't act like your too fucking stupid to realize why 99% of the world doesn't want to deal with ncurses and text menus and tools.
From my own experience my company uses FreeBSD. Yahoo uses FreeBSD. pair.com one of the bigger hosting providers uses FreeBSD. mp3.com uses FreeBSD. Hotmail used to use FreeBSD, I'm not sure if they still do. (after it was bought by MS that is). ftp.cdrom.com uses FreeBSD.
I don't want to argue about the merits of FreeBSD, because I don't much about it.
But your argument is probably quite weak, because these companies decided to go with FreeBSD years ago.
In the worst case (for FreeBSD) it just shows that at the time when they made their decision for FreeBSD it was superior, and today it's just "good enough" for not making the switch to linux.
I'm not too convinced that FreeBSD _today_ is a better OS for servers which a lot of CPU power for application servers and such stuff. The scalability work done on linux 2.4/2.5 seems to imply that it would be a better choice for such workloads.
Why is this modded up? Someone who stands against progress is modded as Insightful? Umm O.K., lets all go back to terminals since this fancy GUI stuff was just for newbies anyways. There's nothing you can do in Mozilla that can't be done from Lynx right?
"Yeah sure, GUI installers look nice, but what's the USE? "
That is a plainly stupid question.
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