I have started with BSDi on servers, which was a commercial version of FreeBSD, followed by FreeBSD. I always hated these rpm and other binary things, and 3-4 years ago I tried FreeBSD on a desktop and it failed yet again. Today Gentoo is the only choose on a desktop for ex-BSD user. The portage is so close to freeBSD ports, they just made it much more flexible, any needs customisable. Gentoo is good for servers as well, but it just changes too fast, which brings some upgrading issues once in a while, still very easy fixable. So my choose is: - BSD for solid, stable and conservative servers (with cvs RELENG_7, for example) - Gentoo for everything else (commercial support is also available)
my 5cents. 2008/9/11 Ng Pheng Siong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Kelvin Quee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> It's ironic that while you're trying out Linux, I'm actually jumping >> ship and switching to FreeBSD. >> >> Now if only - >> >> portupgrade -NPRsc kdebase >> >> could be a little faster... ;) > > I've been running BSD for many years, since 386BSD, actually. In Linux > timeline, this was during the days of 17-*diskette* Linux distros, when > Linus was still in school. > Every so often I'd install a distro-of-the-month, have a look-see, and go > back to BSD. > Now I just want to try Linux on a VPS, that's all. > > -- > Ng Pheng Siong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > > _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
