I like Ubuntu

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sat Apr 14 10:17:25 UTC 2007


doug at safeport.com writes:
> First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors
> Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI
> switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I think it is also true that
> depending on your hardware a FreeBSD workstation or laptop can be a
> bit of a challenge.

My issues with FreeBSD as a desktop mostly come from the difficulty of
installing software and keeping it up-to-date: 'pkg_add -r' and
'portupgrade -aP' simply can't hold a candle to 'apt-get install' and
'apt-get dist-upgrade'.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no


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