Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 01, 2006 10:47 AM
After all this, you may wonder why anyone would bother jumping through these hoops rather than simply wipe the box clean and install Linux. Maybe for the same reason Linux users run essential Windows applications under Wine -- I run FreeBSD because I like it.
Ok. That's a matter of taste, but your example does not apply. A "Windows application" is just that, an application, not an OS. Running a good Windows application under Wine is not at all comparible to running FreeBSD which is an OS. But ok - liking anything is a matter of taste.
It has a huge number of applications available for it.
WTF?!?! Debian Sarge has 18000+ applications, does FreeBSD come even close? No. In terms of stability and security Debian has been a match for *BSD for a quite a while now, so there is really no rational reason to stick with *BSD, in particular for a *desktop* which is what you say you are using it for.
I tried various flavors of *BSD and none come even close to the power of Debian which is a superior product to any *BSD (or any other Linux distro for that matter) in pretty much any use. Ok - between, say Lindows or OSX and FreeBSD I would definitely choose FreeBSD. But with Debian out there? Never.
I do not intend to troll by starting a "my OS/distro is better than yours" flamewar (although some will probably accuse me of just that) - but since your article concludes with exactly this issue, let me ask you this: can you name me one reason - besides issues of taste which are inherently subjective but still very legitimate - to use FreeBSD with some GNU/Linux application when Debian is out there?
And since you seem to like having a choice of many applcation - does *BSD have anything as good as apt-get?!
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 01, 2006 10:47 AMOk. That's a matter of taste, but your example does not apply. A "Windows application" is just that, an application, not an OS. Running a good Windows application under Wine is not at all comparible to running FreeBSD which is an OS. But ok - liking anything is a matter of taste.
It has a huge number of applications available for it.
WTF?!?! Debian Sarge has 18000+ applications, does FreeBSD come even close? No. In terms of stability and security Debian has been a match for *BSD for a quite a while now, so there is really no rational reason to stick with *BSD, in particular for a *desktop* which is what you say you are using it for.
I tried various flavors of *BSD and none come even close to the power of Debian which is a superior product to any *BSD (or any other Linux distro for that matter) in pretty much any use. Ok - between, say Lindows or OSX and FreeBSD I would definitely choose FreeBSD. But with Debian out there? Never.
I do not intend to troll by starting a "my OS/distro is better than yours" flamewar (although some will probably accuse me of just that) - but since your article concludes with exactly this issue, let me ask you this: can you name me one reason - besides issues of taste which are inherently subjective but still very legitimate - to use FreeBSD with some GNU/Linux application when Debian is out there?
And since you seem to like having a choice of many applcation - does *BSD have anything as good as apt-get?!
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