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

Crist on f****** pogo stick, this is a troll.

[Dante]

Jack Wagner is fiction, what this troll is saying is compleate nonsence. Please do not encourage him.

Re:FreeBSD = top quality

[AvengerXP]

"Experts mostly use minimal installs or even the floppy install."

Is this a joke? Experts still use floppy instead of PXE Boot or CD-Boot? And since when do experts use minimal install? I prefer custom. Your arguments are dubious.

"It is easy and even trivial to use"

I'll tell you what is trivial to use, without being a Windows fanboy. My sister installing her own network including hubs without any need for my help is trivial. BSD is tedious, as is Linux. That doesn't mean they are not good OSes quite the contrary, but please, don't capitalize on something the product is not. That's like saying Windows is modular, and easy to add/remove parts you don't really need.