On 11 May 2012 13:31, IvankoB <ivankob4m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Unfortunately, it lacks a lot of important software (incl networking & > system administration [VPN daemons,..])
Administrating a FreeBSD machine is one of the easiest tasks I've see - compared to the 1000's of Linux variations, it is an absolute pleasure. As for the Network - I believe Linux and Mac OS X are using BSD's networking stack. > & hardware support especially. I installed FreeBSD 9.0 about 2 months ago on a 3 year old server/workstation - everything was detected and working. It is now our company's primary source code repository and hosts 2 VirtualBox VM sessions (running headless). FreeBSD can also execute any Linux executable (at least all the ones I through at it), so even the Linux-only software can run under FreeBSD. I guess the latest and greatest 3D gaming video cards might be a problem - but then Linux has often got problems with those too. In any case, for a development workstation or a server, FreeBSD seems to do a wonderful job. > Me know some admins which were huge fans of BSD in the past but they HAVE > TO switch to LINUX after years of everyday nightmare. And they have been > very happy since then. And sometimes I feel I need to switch to Mac OS X or Windows - just to stop fighting software that doesn't work correctly. :-) I guess each person is entitled to his own choices. My next development machine (1 month from now) is probably going to run FreeBSD as the main OS, so I hope Martin is OK with accepting a few patches. Doing a quick search, MSEide&MSEgui sure has a lot of IFDEF LINUX lines. :-/ -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
