Posted by
michael
on from the thanks-for-all-the-fish-screensavers dept.
Nirbo writes "FreeBSD switches to X.Org, The 'HEADSUP' can be found here, and on the -x11, -current, and -ports mailing lists. Very good news for those FreeBSD users who have either changed to X.Org in anticipation, or have been waiting in hope for this momentous change."
Re:I wonder...
by
OmniVector
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or build it and install it yourself via darwinports or fink.
boy that sure was hard.
-- - tristan
Re:BETTER QUESTION: Why do we even need FreeBSD?
by
SillyNickName4me
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> Listen: Freebsd is for amateur tinnkerers and college kids.
So Yahoo and hotmail are college kids?
> Only some old fart who started working in the 90s would still use BSD for anything important.
Lets turn that around, only people who have too little experience workign would skip on it.
> The last time FreeBSD was ahead of linux in anything was what? 1996? maybe 1998?
2004 actually, but never mind, you have your mind set already anyway.
> Name anything freebsd actually does better than linux? There is never anything specific basked up by facts. It's always just some "well it's like more robust or something..."
Yeah, some crap which is incidentely believed by for example Juniper and other makers of routers, Yahoo and such.. I'm sure they love wasting their money on such things.
> crap which means nothing and is not even true. BSD is running on fumes of hype right now, once people wake up and realize it sucks it will be all done.
You know what? go stick your head in a pig or something.. (not that it matters really, you don't seem to be able to use it anyway)
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or build it and install it yourself via darwinports or fink.
boy that sure was hard.
- tristan
> Listen: Freebsd is for amateur tinnkerers and college kids.
So Yahoo and hotmail are college kids?
> Only some old fart who started working in the 90s would still use BSD for anything important.
Lets turn that around, only people who have too little experience workign would skip on it.
> The last time FreeBSD was ahead of linux in anything was what? 1996? maybe 1998?
2004 actually, but never mind, you have your mind set already anyway.
> Name anything freebsd actually does better than linux? There is never anything specific basked up by facts. It's always just some "well it's like more robust or something..."
Yeah, some crap which is incidentely believed by for example Juniper and other makers of routers, Yahoo and such.. I'm sure they love wasting their money on such things.
> crap which means nothing and is not even true. BSD is running on fumes of hype right now, once people wake up and realize it sucks it will be all done.
You know what? go stick your head in a pig or something.. (not that it matters really, you don't seem to be able to use it anyway)