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Thank you. The mouse-over popup spam was too much to fight with.
by bdg 13y ago
Thank you.
The mouse-over popup spam was too much to fight with.
- keithpeter 13y agoMay I respectfully mention Firefox and the noscript plugin at this point. Back on topic: I really want to try out a non-linux kernel OS at some point, but I have nvida hardware...
- GalacticDomin8r 13y agoThe proprietary nvidia driver works great on FreeBSD.
- keithpeter 13y agoI'll try an install on my 'play PC' (ancient HP xw6200 with a newer GT520 cheapy card) over the weekend.
- b3n 13y agoFreeBSD has NVidia drivers in the ports tree, I haven't had a problem with them.
- bdg 13y agoThe FreeBSD kernel is cool, but what really sells me on it is the concept of a 'core system' as a design feature, and the nifty things like ZFS that you get. There's a new things that aren't quite like Linux, for instance, the 'watch' command does something entirely different.
- klibertp 13y agosysutils/gnu-watch and sysutils/coreutils and other ports may be used to give you a more linux like environment. I have most of them installed, but I use them only when the native, BSD implementation lacks a certain option I need - and it's really rare. And I support your opinion on a "core system" being a feature - it makes things consistent, which is a good thing. For example, I tried to setup a wifi network on Arch and I needed at least three different commands for this, each with it's own options syntax. In FreeBSD there is 'ifconfig' command which does everything related to networking and that's all.
- cookiecaper 13y agoPhoronix is terrible and is _always_ the site that provokes me to install AdBlock.