Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

[Chris Whitehouse]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> Is FreeBSD going to enhance himself on the desktop ? It seems that 
>> FreeBSD
> 
> i don't understand your question. FreeBSD can run any unix program, be 
> in "server program" or "desktop program" whatever "desktop" means for you.
> 
> there is nothing to be enhanced.

I beg to differ. There is far more desktop particularly multimedia 
development in Linux - lots more people and much wider range of 
interests. Programs that are not available for FreeBSD include 
Cinelerra, projectM and (I think, but please prove me wrong) the 
climateprediction.net BOINC project. If you only want applications that 
are in the ports tree (and the vast majority are) chances are they are 
pretty current and work well, in which case FreeBSD makes an easy to 
maintain, fast, stable desktop.

It depends how much of a hacker you are. If you want out-of-the-box and 
you don't mind kde then choose between pcbsd or desktopbsd. If you want 
out-of-the-box and gnome I think you are out of luck. If you don't mind 
diy FreeBSD is your toolbox.

There was a discussion about this in questions a while back. Look for 
subject FreeBSD & Linux distro.

Chris


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