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Why FreeBSD
An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD operating system is the unknown giant among free operating systems. Starting out from the 386BSD project, it is an extremely fast UNIX-like operating system mostly for the Intel chip and its clones. In many ways, FreeBSD has always been the operating system that GNU/Linux-based operating systems should have been. It runs on out-of-date Intel machines and 64-bit AMD chips, and it serves terabytes of files a day on some of the largest file servers on earth."
If this were "Windows" or "Solaris" in the title, it would result in an all out bashing session by the Linux faithful.
FreeBSD is for people who hate Linux.
OpenBSD is for people who like Unix.
If you want a BSD, then you want Open. FreeBSD is a bit pointless, it doesn't really do anything well like OpenBSD, it's just more fashionable and mainstream so wannabe-geeks use it who think they're too elite for Linux.
In many ways, FreeBSD has always been the operating system that GNU/Linux-based operating systems should have been. I
We use FreeBSD and windows at my company. I hate it. I'd much rather use Linux, simply because I'm more familiar with it.
And while FreeBSD can run on "old" Intel hardware so can Linux, and Linux can run on Itanium, PPC, and just about every thing out there. I'm sure it can scale higher then FreeBSD at this point.
FBSD is, I guess, convenient for companies that don't want to have to give back their enhancements, but beyond that I really don't get the point. I certainly don't see why exactly Linux "should" be like free BSD.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Perhaps you can stop being a douche and people will stop calling you one, you douche.
You seem to have a condition I have observed, I like to call what you suffer from Bigger Dick Software Syndrome.
What's happening is that you're upset that there is something competing with your beloved Linux and it claims not only to be more Open than Linux because it doesn't do closed source drivers and modules but claims to be more Free than Linux because it doesn't use the GPL - you look down at the dirt for a second and then decide since you cannot prove your point of view to these people that you have to make as big of a possiblea dick as you can instead.
Feel free to return to bugger off some time and leave everyone else alone, you're wonderfully insightful and informative tripe doesn't really interest anyone that knows anything.
Bigger dick competitions don't belong here, go become a world leader, being a cocky douche seems to be great for one's career in that field.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.