Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New LINUX distros are funny :)

2012-05-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, And that is why I seem to gravitate towards FreeBSD as my new server and development platform. Linux is just a big mess at the moment, and the 1000's of distros make the case even worse. No standards at all, and all the current desktop environments are rubbish! FreeBSD: fast, clear

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New LINUX distros are funny :)

2012-05-11 Thread IvankoB
FreeBSD: fast, clear standards, consistent and very stable. Not to mention the absolute must-have ZFS file system support - I don't trust my data on anything else any more. Unfortunately, it lacks a lot of important software (incl networking system administration [VPN daemons,..])

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New LINUX distros are funny :)

2012-05-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
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

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New LINUX distros are funny :)

2012-05-11 Thread Martin Schreiber
Martin Schreiber wrote: On Friday 11 May 2012 15:01:50 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: 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, MSEideMSEgui sure has a lot of IFDEF