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This sounds like the standard "BSD is dying" canard from Slashdot and elsewhere, and without substantiation it doesn't merit a top spot in this discussion. BSD
by dewarrn1 15y ago
This sounds like the standard "BSD is dying" canard from Slashdot and elsewhere, and without substantiation it doesn't merit a top spot in this discussion. BSD has been and remains a server-first OS, with desktop support for the latest and greatest processors trailing Linux by a substantial margin. On widely-deployed hardware, support is generally equivalent, and I'm quite pleased with recent releases for headless servers.
- jhancock 15y agoI certainly understand the server-first perspective. From a perspective of a guy who values having the same underlying OS as his desktop and server, its a problem. I tried using "OS X [desktop] and FreeBSD [server]" as a mix for a few years and then switched to "OS X and ubuntu server", now moved on to "mint and ubuntu server". I don't need a desktop that does everything. Just recent versions of skype, firefox, and thunderbird. Also sometimes a simple GUI file manager is useful.