I like Ubuntu

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sat Apr 14 18:21:52 UTC 2007


Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 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
>   
My aim is to improve that as part of my SoC project that I'm working on.
-Garrett


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