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Not all of us drank the GNU koolaid. I for one tend to chose other opensource alternatives where possible. Not that I'm advocating for Apple. I've been perfe
by GalacticDomin8r 13y ago
Not all of us drank the GNU koolaid. I for one tend to chose other opensource alternatives where possible. Not that I'm advocating for Apple. I've been perfectly content for years using FreeBSD as my primary server and desktop OS. IMO it works better than Linux too. For example, at $WORK we run SLES 11 w/ your choice of DE. I use KDE4as I do w/ FreeBSD. KDE4 on FreeBSD has been far more stable for me than SLES(though in SLES's partial defense, it's packages are quite far behind). Anyways, I'm glad to see FreeBSD leaving the GNU toolchain and userland behind.
PS -- Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has it backwards. A FreeBSD userland w/ a linux kernel might actually be interesting to me.
- Roboprog 13y agoCurious: what problems in the GNU userland utilities do the BSD utilities address? (not saying that there aren't any, just that I don't use the BSD stuff any more enough to know -- e.g., it's been about 20 years since I was using "Ultrix" and the like)
- GalacticDomin8r 13y ago> what problems in the GNU userland utilities do the BSD utilities address? Simplicy for one since BSD utils are developed in a mostly non-fractured enviroment. I gave one example in a previous post. That isn't the end of the story, but it's a good start. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640751