On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Matt Rowley wrote: > > In my opinion, BSD is mainly used by some for > > webservers, mailservers, firewalls, etc, and not the > > desktop/workstation because of the extra layer needed to run linux > > apps. > > This is just plain wrong. FreeBSD makes a great workstation and can > run all the window managers you can think of that run on linux. > OpenBSD and NetBSD are also perfectly good for the desktop. > I run FreeBSD 4.6 on one of my desktops with XFree86 4, Blackbox, and > KDE 3. I have OpenBSD 3.1 with XFree86 4 and Blackbox window manager > on my IBM Thinkpad laptop.
While BSD does tout stronger security and networking performance, it isn't just for servers. If you look at the ports database, it's quite complete. > Linux is more popular (especially from a commercial perspective) and > tends to have newer hardware sooner than the BSDs. Mac runs a twisted Yes and no. Linux is more in the news and popular these days, so you might find user apps coming out for linux before BSD (of course the linux apps will still run on BSD), but some companies will release drivers for BSD before linux so they don't have to give away the source code. (GPL vs BSD license). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thekramers.net DK KD Pitr: Serve me and my dark legions well, and I will grant you your DKK D deepest wish. DK KD Greg: Fine. Promise me you'll make stupidity painful. DDDD User Friendly -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
