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FreeBSD 5.2 Review

Posted by timothy on from the mostly-good dept.

JigSaw writes "OSNews published a review of FreeBSD 5.2. They found the OS very solid as a server but pretty lacking as a desktop. The author finds FreeBSD very fast overall, easy to configure and that it feels integrated and mature. On the other hand, it has limited modern hardware support, small annoyances at places and that not many binary packages are available and so compilations from ports may take long time."

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  1. Re:Thoughts on infrastructure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah but the problem with Windows isn't its base. The base is rock solid. To prove that just run the OS from a clean install. You can run that thing for years without a problem. The problem is when you start adding things like Outlook, half-assed drivers from ATI or Creative, and every piece of spyware known to man. To me the biggest problem with Windows as a desktop is that it assumes that its users have even a modicum of common sense when obviously they don't. The safest desktop for a user is a locked down dummy terminal.