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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. Bzzzttt! They Fail It. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They are fighting to integrate Gnome but, again, failing to identify their markets desires. Most people prefer KDE! The market wants KDE but the developers keep pushing Gnome on them. Then they wonder why people don't use their distro.

  2. FreeBSD is fine for little web servers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or other light-weight front end servers, MTAs, DNS, etc. for small businesses and hobby users.
    Until FreeBSD supports Oracle and IBM s/390 it can't be considered a competitor to more full-featured enterprise OS like Solaris, HPUX, and Linux.