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FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE Reviewed
ValourX writes "Here's a full review of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE complete with screen shots, a short comparison with GNU/Linux, and some notes on migrating to FreeBSD from Windows and GNU/Linux."
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I've never had the honour (pain?) of being directly slashdotted, but I seem to be getting an indirect slashdotting. From the link in the middle of the article (to a very handy utility in development for performing binary security updates) I'm seeing a couple visitors per second.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
What is it about this comment that gives me a tremendous urge to turn on the TV and watch a solid hour of M*A*S*H reruns?
Gosh, as a courtesy, you should really give Yahoo, NetCraft and the rest of these folks this important advice.
I use 5.1 - I am writing this in Opera 7.21 on the XFCE4 destop. Have Mozilla 1.4, OpenOffice 1.1 (rc5), KDE 3.1.4, etc. installed.
... I don't want to remember ;-)
:)
Tried it first a couple of weeks ago. Before that I used Mandrake 9.0/9.1 for a year and before that
I was (well, still am) a computer noob - no formal computer education (I'm studying literature) - but after installing linux, I understood what distrowatch's "put fun back into computing" means. I even mostly forgot about the hot windows games - playing with linux (and now BSD) is more fun.
I just wanted to say: I admire the people making FreeBSD (just as I admire linux developers). This is a very decent review of FreeBSD, but it makes it sound more geekish than it really is (well, I know this can't be helped, and I see the effort to emphasize the fact that the FreeBSD documentation is so good, that it really makes things simple, more simple than in linux in fact.)
As to the dying trolls: I don't really get that. Can someone tell me when this started? It is as if someone had a personal vendetta against BSD - and I can't think of a reason for it. Is he/she (are they?) linux zealots (I _am_ a linux zealot - I like it as much as I do BSD, I just prefer the latter right now)? Disgruntled BSDi users? It doesn't make any sense. It is funny, however, that they point to netcraft to confirm their claims, whereas it was netcraft that reported a continuous and steady growth of the FreeBSD user base in the past years.
Anyway, its a fantastic OS - and I think the current kernel development is on par with linux (KSE, PAE, whatnot). I didn't have problems with hardware support either, in fact, my on-board via8233 is working flawlessly, while I had to download an updated driver for Mandrake 9.1 to get it working. I also believe that anyone who isn't unconfortable with the command line in linux, would really like and appreciate BSD (gentoo/slackware users: give it a try!)
I don't want to stray too far from topic, but the reviewer mentions Gentoo's Portage system having horrible breakage? This concerns me a bit as I'm a recent inductee into all that is Gentoo and have thusfar been quite happy with Portage as well as the system in general. Are there really serious issues that one should know about before trusting Gentoo and Portage, or is this mostly FUD?
Not really interested in "sucks/rules" responses, but if anyone has some concrete examples or information, I'd definitely be interested.
Thank you that post just brightened up my day to finally see that "BSD sux" post to be trounced into the ground.