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FreeBSD Vows to Compete with Desktop Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moving-on-up dept.

AlanS2002 writes "FreeBSD developer Scott Long is being reported as saying that FreeBSD is quickly approaching feature parity with Linux. Apparently this is being achieved through efforts to more tightly integrate GNOME with FreeBSD, with one of the priorities being to 'GNOME's hardware abstraction layer--which handles hardware-specific code--working with FreeBSD'."

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  1. Compete for Market Share? by denissmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Compete with DESKTOP Linux? Shouldn't they aim a little higher, compete with OS/2???

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  2. Re:Windows eats Linux and poops FreeBSD by debilo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows eats Linux and poops FreeBSD

    I am confused - are you trying to depict Windows as a gourmet or rather as an entity with a magic colon?

  3. Re:Windows eats Linux and poops FreeBSD by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 2, Funny
    I am confused...

    He's just tired of the car/OS analogy and
    decided to introduce the bodily function/OS analogy.

    Brilliant! I can't believe he posted AC!

  4. I don't understand! by Godji · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we please have a car analogy?

  5. GPL vs. BSD License by static0verdrive · · Score: 2, Funny

    You won't get too far against linux with that license, buddy.

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  6. Re:didnt they have a completely goal?-Flake n' bak by JFitzsimmons · · Score: 2, Funny

    Based on statistical analysis of slashdot, yes! :P

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  7. I see a connection here: by kshade · · Score: 5, Funny

    12 Dec 2005 - Linus Torvalds states that "only idiots will use [Gnome]".
    20 Apr 2006 - Linus claims "that [...] FreeBSD [People] are incompetent idiots."
    12 May 2006 - The FreeBSD folks announce a tightly integratin of GNOME with FreeBSD.*

    * You didn't click that link, did you?