On Saturday 28 Jun 2008 11:19:50 Pranav Peshwe wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 4:28 AM, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > God forbid if machines are bundled with freebsd :) > > Hey, its not that bad :) Rather, its good, and is improving day by day.
I didn't mean freebsd was bad. I meant imagine what it would do to OP's usage of 'other than linux'. :) I have used freebsd and frankly didn't find it better enough to warrant a switch from slackware. :) This was 4.8. Tried 6.2 but didn't have a pressing need for switch. Besides linux kernel has had better threading since ages. For a plus to freebsd, it is the most gnome clean system I had seen that time. But slackware managed it soon as well ;). This wasn't a pressing requirement but I can't stand GNOME.(Come on, what DM does not have a shutdown/reboot button? Slackware GNOME i.e. vanilla one didn't have one but redhat one did. WTH?) > Also, for someone who primarily uses the GUI, it rarely matters whether the > under-running kernel is a BSD or Linux. Actually freeBSD offered me a 'doesn't matter whats underneath' experience before linux albeit not by much in terms of time and features. Linux needed some tweaks for sound cards I used but BSD just worked. Again for me, they differ by a hair's margin and choice is mostly preferential. -- Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
