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GNOME 2.5.0 Available For FreeBSD
Dan writes "FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke announces that GNOME 2.5.0 desktop, the "Obviously you're not a golfer" release, is now available for FreeBSD. You can check out this release from the MarcusCom CVS repository. Be sure to get the latest copy of the "marcusmerge" script while you're there to help with the upgrade. Thanks to FreeBSD GNOME users, there is also a man page to go with this script. NOTE: this is a developers release, and bugs will exist. If you're not into bug-hunting, you should probably steer clear until 2.6.0 is released."
You get more x86 hardware and software support in Linux, it's just as stable (if not more so) with solid distros such as Debian and Slackware, it's faster (as reports have shown), it scales much better and it has heaps of commercial support.
Lets take apart your statement by piece. It is not as stable, I've proven this...Linux can not handle multiple compiles at once, hence its not really meant as a server OS, atleast not yet.
As for the drivers issue, big deal, BSD isnt meant for desktop, its meant for doing work, I dont need my nVidia card to be supported to do email and crap.
Linux is the buzz word, because people think its "free", its not free, you make any changes to it, you lose out. BSD is truely free in the respects you can redistribute it in binary form and charge for it. Free means to do with as you wish, the only stipulation in the BSD License is the copyright headers have to stay intact.
The compelling reason to use FreeBSD over Linux is that it is faster, it crashes far less, you can handle more, and you can do whatever you want to the source code without having to make it available to everyone in the world, with the exception of the copyright headers, which to me is true freedom.