I agree with you fully, I've been into computers since the early 80's with a TRS80-CoCo2 64K computer, I then went to a 286 Clone with DOS-3.3 which i stayed with until I couldn't take all the buzz about the internet and bought a 550 Pentium 3 running windows 98,i quickly learned to hate windows 98, and began playing with Linux with RedHat7. RPM hell took it's toll but I knew alot of people who used Linux, so I persisted. I met someone running FreeBSD and my life changed forever. Ports rocked, the install was easy and hardware worked the first time. the kernel was easy to play with.... I could type all night, but now I'm both 100% Linux free and Windows free. I find BSD users to be alot friendlier, not just yelling RTFM all the time, and all the politics involved with Linux and SCO is also a major turn off. Linux users like to harbor the MS injected press against them, as almost a crusade to continue using it, and to push the idea of Linux onto people who may never have a need for it. I use FreeBSD, because it's Free, easy and just works, but has enough geek to it to keep me interested. Linux just has too many distro's and software that works for one may or may not work on another, without modification. I've heard that RPM-hell is non-existant now, but I'm happy with FreeBSD and will stay there. I also am glad to know I'm using an OS that doesn't have a monopolistic "world domination" as its goal too, just one that works, and one that Microsoft has been known to use itself, when their own software was inadequate:D
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I agree with you fully, I've been into computers since the early 80's with a TRS80-CoCo2 64K computer, I then went to a 286 Clone with DOS-3.3 which i stayed with until I couldn't take all the buzz about the internet and bought a 550 Pentium 3 running windows 98,i quickly learned to hate windows 98, and began playing with Linux with RedHat7. RPM hell took it's toll but I knew alot of people who used Linux, so I persisted. I met someone running FreeBSD and my life changed forever. Ports rocked, the install was easy and hardware worked the first time. the kernel was easy to play with.... I could type all night, but now I'm both 100% Linux free and Windows free. I find BSD users to be alot friendlier, not just yelling RTFM all the time, and all the politics involved with Linux and SCO is also a major turn off. Linux users like to harbor the MS injected press against them, as almost a crusade to continue using it, and to push the idea of Linux onto people who may never have a need for it. I use FreeBSD, because it's Free, easy and just works, but has enough geek to it to keep me interested. Linux just has too many distro's and software that works for one may or may not work on another, without modification. I've heard that RPM-hell is non-existant now, but I'm happy with FreeBSD and will stay there. I also am glad to know I'm using an OS that doesn't have a monopolistic "world domination" as its goal too, just one that works, and one that Microsoft has been known to use itself, when their own software was inadequate :D