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In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop

Posted by timothy on from the tricky-little-devil dept.

snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia wonders why more folks aren't using FreeBSD on the desktop. 'There used to be a saying — at least I've said it many times — that my workstations run Linux, my servers run FreeBSD. Sure, it's quicker to build a Linux box, do a "yum install x y z" and toss it out into the wild as a fully functional server, but the extra time required to really get a FreeBSD box tuned will come back in spades through performance and stability metrics. You'll get more out of the hardware, be that virtual or physical, than you will on a generic Linux binary installation.'"

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  1. Re:Shouldn't Apples count? by sirdude · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seeing as to how you haven't RTFA, you deserve to be on-slaughtered :)

  2. Re:Shouldn't Apples count? by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sir, this is /. I have NEVER read an article.

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  3. Re:Sorry, but it's not worth the time by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oblig xkcd.

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  4. Re:Shouldn't Apples count? by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait, since when does Slashdot link to articles?

  5. Re:more stability? by Attila+Dimedici · · Score: 3, Funny

    Every OS is as stable as the user.

    So, you are saying that Free BSD is not very stable? Because every FreeBSD user I have ever met has been among the most unstable people I know.

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