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FreeBSD 5.4 Review

Posted by timothy on from the freebers-creepers dept.

gammelgul writes "Jem Matzan has written a review of the new FreeBSD 5.4 release on NewsForge. He writes about enhancements and the 64bit edition of the OS."

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  1. This is my experience with FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I had been using FreeBSD for quite a long time and a few months ago I suggested to my boss that we install it on a few of our client machines just as an evaluation. After some persuasion he finally agreed to the idea - mainly due to the fact that our IT manager had run BSD successfully on his PC for a while.

    It all was really good to start with. FreeBSD was better than our expectations and my boss was happy with the switchover - I had even been nominated for a promotion at the end of the year. Unfortunately we encountered one problem. One employee lost a whole project due to the OS corrupting the filesystem.

    My boss wasn't happy with me at all. I was called into his office and given a stern reprimand. A few days later I was looking for another job from home. A word of advice: don't use FreeBSD as all it seems to do is cause problems.