Again, here comes another insecure hyper-sensitive reaction to my opinion. Let me be clear, I am just putting out my experience and my opinion. Unlike your bogus self-righteous editorial and para-phrasing that you try to pass off as fact.
Are you that narrow-minded that you honestly believe that different distributions will NOT install differently on the same hardware? Especially comparing FreeBSD and an average linux distribution? C'mon man, clearly a guy as articulate as you must have a larger grasp of things than this. No?
In the end, I'm happy with Gentoo. Regardless of the path I took to get there. FreeBSD didn't work out. Maybe with another wasted week I could be more versed in why FreeBSD was a bad choice.
Is it just me or does the insecurity of the FreeBSD community shine through here in blinding fashion?
I'm giving you a first-timer user experience with both FreeBSD and Gentoo. Say what you want about the "top notch" FreeBSD support forms but I found them to be limited, out of date and more often than not no help. In my opinion there appears to be a whole lot more work put into installation and setup guides of Gentoo in comparison with FreeBSD.
As far as the X setup goes:
# Xorg -configure
# cp xorg.conf.new/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Yeah, when all goes well this works perfectly. If you honestly think that 1) I didn't try this and 2) that this will work perfectly all the time than you are one naive mofo.
I'd love to sit here and re-live the week of my life I wasted trying to get FreeBSD and Debian up and running on this hardware but honestly I am trying to get past it.
Let me just sum up with this. My goal was to get Software RAID-5 on four SATA drives on a A8V-MX motherboard running some form of unix/linux including X-Windows. I gave FreeBSD more than a fair shake. In the end, what got the job done was Gentoo. The only snag was the VT8251 chipset support with AHCI. I found a Gentoo forum where some guys had worked this issue out. Their fix was not in the kernel source tree yet but the patch applied, compiled and enabled my SATA drives.
I am not trying to hurt anybody's feelings. This was just my experience. YMMV.
I tried in vain to setup FreeBSD 6.0 as a SATA software raid machine. I was using a more recent motherboard with graphics, network and SATA integrated on-board. I think they are all VIA chipsets. I eventually hit the eject on FreeBSD as I couldn't even get X up and running. I then tried Debian. All-in-all it was another less than positive experience. Both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel versions of Sarge had problems with my hardware.
I decided to explore Gentoo. Its working great with SATA and EVMS. It did require some source level tweaks but part of the coolness I found with Gentoo is the very active user/support community and the tons of HowTos and guides.
Unless they've made a quantum leap in improvements, FreeBSD would NOT be my choice for a SATA raid server.
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Again, here comes another insecure hyper-sensitive reaction to my opinion. Let me be clear, I am just putting out my experience and my opinion. Unlike your bogus self-righteous editorial and para-phrasing that you try to pass off as fact.
Are you that narrow-minded that you honestly believe that different distributions will NOT install differently on the same hardware? Especially comparing FreeBSD and an average linux distribution? C'mon man, clearly a guy as articulate as you must have a larger grasp of things than this. No?
In the end, I'm happy with Gentoo. Regardless of the path I took to get there. FreeBSD didn't work out. Maybe with another wasted week I could be more versed in why FreeBSD was a bad choice.
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Is it just me or does the insecurity of the FreeBSD community shine through here in blinding fashion?
I'm giving you a first-timer user experience with both FreeBSD and Gentoo. Say what you want about the "top notch" FreeBSD support forms but I found them to be limited, out of date and more often than not no help. In my opinion there appears to be a whole lot more work put into installation and setup guides of Gentoo in comparison with FreeBSD.
As far as the X setup goes: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Xorg -configure
# cp xorg.conf.new
Yeah, when all goes well this works perfectly. If you honestly think that 1) I didn't try this and 2) that this will work perfectly all the time than you are one naive mofo.
I'd love to sit here and re-live the week of my life I wasted trying to get FreeBSD and Debian up and running on this hardware but honestly I am trying to get past it.
Let me just sum up with this. My goal was to get Software RAID-5 on four SATA drives on a A8V-MX motherboard running some form of unix/linux including X-Windows. I gave FreeBSD more than a fair shake. In the end, what got the job done was Gentoo. The only snag was the VT8251 chipset support with AHCI. I found a Gentoo forum where some guys had worked this issue out. Their fix was not in the kernel source tree yet but the patch applied, compiled and enabled my SATA drives.
I am not trying to hurt anybody's feelings. This was just my experience. YMMV.
I tried in vain to setup FreeBSD 6.0 as a SATA software raid machine. I was using a more recent motherboard with graphics, network and SATA integrated on-board. I think they are all VIA chipsets. I eventually hit the eject on FreeBSD as I couldn't even get X up and running. I then tried Debian. All-in-all it was another less than positive experience. Both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel versions of Sarge had problems with my hardware. I decided to explore Gentoo. Its working great with SATA and EVMS. It did require some source level tweaks but part of the coolness I found with Gentoo is the very active user/support community and the tons of HowTos and guides. Unless they've made a quantum leap in improvements, FreeBSD would NOT be my choice for a SATA raid server.