FreeBSD 5.1 Review and BSD Roundup

securitas writes "Both eWEEK's review of FreeBSD 5.1 and ExtremeTech's BSD overview and roundup (single page) will be of interest to BSDers and anyone else who wants to explore their open source OS options. The review of FreeBSD 5.1 says it lacks the stability of v4.8 but adds features that some may find useful (for example, more processor architectures are supported) so it shouldn't be considered for critical deployments yet. And the BSD round-up speaks for itself."

Comments

I'm not sure I get the analogy

[Surak]

One might well be justified in calling BSD the "Mr. Chips" of operating systems. In the final scene of the classic movie "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", a doctor remarks that it is a shame that the title character -- a masterful schoolteacher now on his death bed -- has never had children. Referring to the many youngsters whose lives he had helped to shape, Mr. Chips replies that he has indeed had children... thousands of them.

I'm not sure I get the analogy, but I *think* he just said *BSD is dying. ;)

I always recommend FreeBSD

[Jack Wagner]

As a long time IT professional I recommend FreeBSD all the time. I'll go into meetings where people are just crying for me to help them gain synergy by decreasing their TCO while at the same time increasing their ROI, yet these people look like a deer caught in the headlights when I flat out tell them that the only way to do that is by looking at taking the next step to the next level by integrating their asset management supply side relationships into leveraged content delivery paradigms, with an eye towards aligning their collaborative relationship initiatives towards common goals and the first step in that direction is to move to an OS that has Olog(n)performance, namely FreeBSD.

I've been able to do this in the past with a a few Fortune 500 companies by implementing a strict B2C affinity marketing plan which relies heavily on E-mediation performance metrics, something that not everyone is willing to go through.

In short, don't even come to me with questions about your Value chain collaborative commerce unless you're willing to pay the piper and upgrade to FreeBSD because this is not your daddy's economy and you'll get nowhere by running legacy operating systems. Times have changed and unless you're willing to change with them you'll be left behind wondering what the hell happened to all your profits.

Warmest regards,

--Jack

Sounds familiar...

[goldspider]

"The review of FreeBSD 5.1 says it lacks the stability of v4.8 but adds features that some may find useful so it shouldn't be considered for critical deployments yet."

Isn't this what has been said about Windows for quite some time?

Lacking stability?!

[Dthoma]

"The review of FreeBSD 5.1 says it lacks the stability of v4.8"

A BSD lacking stability? *universe explodes*

Re:I tried it, I liked it

[craig2787]

I checked the website, and there is no indication that any more code came from Poland in this release than 5.0.

Re:Whoa to those who abuse moderation

[CoolVibe]

Thanks for reading and have a pleasant morning (or whatever time of day it is, depending on your geometric location).

What does me living somewhere in a dodecahedral shape have to do with what timezone I live in?

Oh you mean geographic, not geometric... Never mind...

Re:Sorry, but YFI

[pboulang]

Didn't we all read that as "YFI: You're Fucking Insane"?

s/BSD/Linux

[pr0ntab]

So bottom line is, I really liked a lot of Linux's features, but unfortunately an OS without programs is useless.

If you want x86 Unix with some commercial support, there is Linux. If you just want commercial support, there is Windows.

You can still get the commercial apps to work on BSD (and some may be native), but that's not why you are using it. You are using it because you are a geek and you're not a slashbot, macophile, amiga-freak, microsoftie, or aol-er. Also, you don't like getting 0wn3d.