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The Case for FreeBSD

Posted by Zonk on from the i-don't-want-to-go-on-the-cart dept.

essdodson writes "Scott Long of FreeBSD release engineering team describes some of the finer points where FreeBSD continues to innovate and display its mature development environment. Items such as netgraph, geom and incredible desktop support by way of Gnome and KDE." From the post: "While I strongly applaud the accomplishments of the NetBSD team and happily agree that NetBSD 2.0 is a strong step forward for them, I take a bit of exception to many of their claims and much of their criticisms of FreeBSD."

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  1. Re:Incredible desktop support? by Nine+Tenths+of+The+W · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Why FreeBSD? Why go half-way? Why not switch to Mac OS X? It has everything that FreeBSD has, plus the best GUI there is or ever will be!

    Because you're forced to use Apple's overpriced hardware.

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  2. Re:Who cares about this battle? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    CDMA writes:
    ". . . my 150 Mhz 32 MB ram machines."
    Maybe if you got an after-school job at McDonalds, you could save up for a new Dell.
    Also, try asking your mom to increase you allowance.