I don't know where you have problems with "instability" in FreeBSD. This and your statements about GEOM is definitely not true. Please look at the system first, before trying to lie to people here and trying to cause harm to this excellent distribution.
I actually changed to FreeBSD on my desktop 10 years ago because Linux distributions have been slower than FreeBSD in providing up-to-date ports.
I occasionally changed to a Linux-based desktop for some months, but always gave up, because I missed FreeBSD ports collection very much. I even tried with Gentoo, but it locked itself up into some weird dependencies, I could not find out how to do the next upgrade and changed to FreeBSD again.
I think FreeBSD is much more easier to use than Linux distributions. I don't like to spend time about thinking what's broken next on my kernel. At the moment Wireless LAN is broken on Linux for me (some kind of regression). For FreeBSD kernel, I just load the drivers (modules) instead of compiling stuff into kernel. FreeBSD is comfortable in every way... that's why I use it.
Yes, but if you escape the browser's sandbox. The software is actually _broken_ and needs a fix.
When you think about Flash plugin... it's already on your system and ready to infect everything. And this is how it works... it won't get fixed, but it's the concept of a browser plugin.
I cannot complain about the quality of FreeBSD, I have had the least problems with this distribution. The lack of an official Flash plugin is not a problem for me, but I noticed that there are some people crying about it in forums and mailing lists.
Proprietary software is evil in generic applications like browsers, yes. Someone said here on Slashdot: having plugins in your browser is like the year 1995. I like this statement. It's funny and it's true.
Fact is, Adobe cannot write portable software, or else it would be a matter of providing a few compiler switches to support a further OS.
Linux plugin would work through emulation on FreeBSD, but I am not interested in Flash, and Linux neither. I hope everyone migrates to HTML5 instead of installing some weird closed-source plugins. You never know what's inside and a browser is a nice application to have spyware attached to it.
So in the meantime, I'm running my PC without Flash support since about 10 years. It would be nice for some people using FreeBSD to have Flash, but even then, I would not install it, I think.
Not really. The last virus infections I found have been on business servers in Indonesia and the Blackberry phones they use, when I was in Indonesia last year. I don't call this "tech savvy", when you don't have an idea how to keep your servers up-to-date with latest security patches and everything runs on deprecated Windows XP installations with old service packs. Running Firefox there does not give them bonus points.
We all know how slow Java is and botnet node users are not willing to upgrade their hardware just to provide a faster service for people who don't pay a cent. So this well-known Java paradigm "Is it too slow? Just add more hardware power!" will not work here.
I have to laugh, because Apple does not decide here. It's the FreeBSD project that aims towards LLVM since long time already. Earlier when Apple "decided" about using ZFS, it was FreeBSD that implemented it. Apple had to remove it again, because of license restrictions that work well only for free projects.
It is really stupid to say "Apple decided" because their system is in large parts derived from independent projects. They don't decide about anything there. They have to accept it.
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I like the stupid articles because of the funny comments that follow. Thanks!:)
It's a tradition that FreeBSD has recent desktop environments earlier than Debian. When I moved from Debian to FreeBSD almost a decade ago, FreeBSD already had KDE3 since over 6 months and Debian could not get it into the package manager somehow. I've been fed up with this slowness and was impressed how great the FreeBSD portage system is being managed. I sticked to FreeBSD since then with occasional excursions to different Linux distributions, but I always ended up on FreeBSD.
When you want to have everything served for you (not everyone likes to have the computer set up by someone else), you should search for a distribution and service that you expect. Take a look at PCBSD.
You know that by comparing different BSDs you are comparing totally different products? Developers are exchanging/porting code, of course, but it's hell difficult. Point is... a FreeBSD system, for example, is exactly one single distribution. You cannot say it about Linux. It does not even have a default configuration that everyone would pick (see: "GENERIC kernel" in FreeBSD).
And btw, desktop user would rather use a preconfigured FreeBSD environment like PCBSD or DesktopBSD.
That's exactly what happens with Linux distributions. But it's not applicable to FreeBSD unless you update across a major version boundary. Not one application failed here after the update. If you understand the concept of STABLE branch in a development, you will know why it is like this.
I'm using FreeBSD since 2002. Tell me the opposite, why should I use Linux?
secure, stable, and powerful
Do you have something that proves it? Buzzwords alone don't convince me.
Just analyze the amount of bug reports from both kernels.
Do you want to say that FreeBSD does not have many bugs, so it has high quality code in it? Or do you want to say that FreeBSD has many fixes, so people actually work hard on the development and improve the system everyday?
I'm using FreeBSD because it's ONE distribution that is very popular and not only a mere kernel, like Linux. And the way they handle applications (FreeBSD ports) is totally the way I WANT them to be handled. Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian and SuSE are nice, but the only distribution I don't get headaches from after a while is FreeBSD. Try it at least, before bitching about it. I tried Linux distributions and didn't like them.
Maybe in mobile sector 1W per SDRAM module is interesting, but on desktop computers it isn't. They should reduce the energy to keep ATX boxes switched off(!) to 0W, as it was with AT, where a mechanical switch was used to cut the PC from power. It is simply inacceptable to consume energy (usually over 5W) when something is completely down (yeah I know, there is wake-on-LAN etc, but 99% of people don't use it). That's why I have a big fat red switch on my multi-outlet power strip.
You have to know that our (German) current ID card is being photocopied for many kinds of quick transactions/deals. Someone can give you something without paying in advance and you give him a copy of your ID card, so he can find you, when you forgot to pay or give something back. You can optionally give the ID card directly as security.
Now... the new ID... it is explicitly forbidden to photocopy it and even leave it unattended somewhere.
Why? Because there are some critical numbers printed on the new German ID cards that no one should know. Isn't it great? Imagine that someone printed your social security number on your new "great and modern ID card"!
And here comes the first loop hole: banks always have needed and still will need your ID card photocopied to open an account. Guess what happens? They will get a special permit to do this (it has been already decided to keep the current account registration system working).
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I don't know where you have problems with "instability" in FreeBSD. This and your statements about GEOM is definitely not true. Please look at the system first, before trying to lie to people here and trying to cause harm to this excellent distribution.
I actually changed to FreeBSD on my desktop 10 years ago because Linux distributions have been slower than FreeBSD in providing up-to-date ports.
I occasionally changed to a Linux-based desktop for some months, but always gave up, because I missed FreeBSD ports collection very much. I even tried with Gentoo, but it locked itself up into some weird dependencies, I could not find out how to do the next upgrade and changed to FreeBSD again.
I think FreeBSD is much more easier to use than Linux distributions. I don't like to spend time about thinking what's broken next on my kernel. At the moment Wireless LAN is broken on Linux for me (some kind of regression). For FreeBSD kernel, I just load the drivers (modules) instead of compiling stuff into kernel. FreeBSD is comfortable in every way... that's why I use it.
You all should know that Lennart Poettering's creations are widely criticized on FreeBSD, for example.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=22444 - "Some things may break in mysterious ways." (because he refuses to accept /usr directory in systemd or wtf it may mean)
Here a thread about PulseAudio: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=2613
I guess, he is a bit disappointed and fights back now.
Yes, but if you escape the browser's sandbox. The software is actually _broken_ and needs a fix.
When you think about Flash plugin... it's already on your system and ready to infect everything. And this is how it works... it won't get fixed, but it's the concept of a browser plugin.
I cannot complain about the quality of FreeBSD, I have had the least problems with this distribution. The lack of an official Flash plugin is not a problem for me, but I noticed that there are some people crying about it in forums and mailing lists.
Proprietary software is evil in generic applications like browsers, yes. Someone said here on Slashdot: having plugins in your browser is like the year 1995. I like this statement. It's funny and it's true.
Fact is, Adobe cannot write portable software, or else it would be a matter of providing a few compiler switches to support a further OS.
Linux plugin would work through emulation on FreeBSD, but I am not interested in Flash, and Linux neither. I hope everyone migrates to HTML5 instead of installing some weird closed-source plugins. You never know what's inside and a browser is a nice application to have spyware attached to it.
So in the meantime, I'm running my PC without Flash support since about 10 years. It would be nice for some people using FreeBSD to have Flash, but even then, I would not install it, I think.
Slashdot is full of beggars now... :) This is probably how Web 3.0 looks like and has obviously something in common with 3rd world countries.
Not really. The last virus infections I found have been on business servers in Indonesia and the Blackberry phones they use, when I was in Indonesia last year. I don't call this "tech savvy", when you don't have an idea how to keep your servers up-to-date with latest security patches and everything runs on deprecated Windows XP installations with old service packs. Running Firefox there does not give them bonus points.
We all know how slow Java is and botnet node users are not willing to upgrade their hardware just to provide a faster service for people who don't pay a cent. So this well-known Java paradigm "Is it too slow? Just add more hardware power!" will not work here.
I have to laugh, because Apple does not decide here. It's the FreeBSD project that aims towards LLVM since long time already. Earlier when Apple "decided" about using ZFS, it was FreeBSD that implemented it. Apple had to remove it again, because of license restrictions that work well only for free projects.
It is really stupid to say "Apple decided" because their system is in large parts derived from independent projects. They don't decide about anything there. They have to accept it.
I like the stupid articles because of the funny comments that follow. Thanks! :)
It's a tradition that FreeBSD has recent desktop environments earlier than Debian. When I moved from Debian to FreeBSD almost a decade ago, FreeBSD already had KDE3 since over 6 months and Debian could not get it into the package manager somehow. I've been fed up with this slowness and was impressed how great the FreeBSD portage system is being managed. I sticked to FreeBSD since then with occasional excursions to different Linux distributions, but I always ended up on FreeBSD.
When you want to have everything served for you (not everyone likes to have the computer set up by someone else), you should search for a distribution and service that you expect. Take a look at PCBSD.
Why does PCBSD fail in your opinion?
You know that by comparing different BSDs you are comparing totally different products? Developers are exchanging/porting code, of course, but it's hell difficult. Point is... a FreeBSD system, for example, is exactly one single distribution. You cannot say it about Linux. It does not even have a default configuration that everyone would pick (see: "GENERIC kernel" in FreeBSD).
And btw, desktop user would rather use a preconfigured FreeBSD environment like PCBSD or DesktopBSD.
That's exactly what happens with Linux distributions. But it's not applicable to FreeBSD unless you update across a major version boundary. Not one application failed here after the update. If you understand the concept of STABLE branch in a development, you will know why it is like this.
Why use FreeBSD when you can use Linux?
I'm using FreeBSD since 2002. Tell me the opposite, why should I use Linux?
secure, stable, and powerful
Do you have something that proves it? Buzzwords alone don't convince me.
Just analyze the amount of bug reports from both kernels.
Do you want to say that FreeBSD does not have many bugs, so it has high quality code in it? Or do you want to say that FreeBSD has many fixes, so people actually work hard on the development and improve the system everyday?
I'm using FreeBSD because it's ONE distribution that is very popular and not only a mere kernel, like Linux. And the way they handle applications (FreeBSD ports) is totally the way I WANT them to be handled. Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian and SuSE are nice, but the only distribution I don't get headaches from after a while is FreeBSD. Try it at least, before bitching about it. I tried Linux distributions and didn't like them.
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And now? Am I safe?
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Please don't use that much padding around the articles and basically everything on the webpage!
Maybe in mobile sector 1W per SDRAM module is interesting, but on desktop computers it isn't. They should reduce the energy to keep ATX boxes switched off(!) to 0W, as it was with AT, where a mechanical switch was used to cut the PC from power. It is simply inacceptable to consume energy (usually over 5W) when something is completely down (yeah I know, there is wake-on-LAN etc, but 99% of people don't use it). That's why I have a big fat red switch on my multi-outlet power strip.
Encrypted command and control communications
What? Since when is USA allowed to export encryption to "evil countries" (defined by USA themselves)?
I call that a strategy.
German* midget wrapped in a latex catsuit fighting off naked clowns with an oversized Q-tip!
Moar of this one above, with pics and timestamps plz! Slashdot is the new /d/ as long as 4chan's down.
You have to know that our (German) current ID card is being photocopied for many kinds of quick transactions/deals. Someone can give you something without paying in advance and you give him a copy of your ID card, so he can find you, when you forgot to pay or give something back. You can optionally give the ID card directly as security.
Now... the new ID... it is explicitly forbidden to photocopy it and even leave it unattended somewhere.
Why? Because there are some critical numbers printed on the new German ID cards that no one should know. Isn't it great? Imagine that someone printed your social security number on your new "great and modern ID card"!
And here comes the first loop hole: banks always have needed and still will need your ID card photocopied to open an account. Guess what happens? They will get a special permit to do this (it has been already decided to keep the current account registration system working).
... what Blizzard did to FreeCraft and about their stupid comments about Linux gaming! Go to hell, Blizzard!