How different is BSD to Linux?
 

Hi there!

I would like to know, how different BSD (open, free or net) are to Linux.

What I mean is, do KDE, gnome, fluxbox... exist for BSD? Do they work as good a on linux?

How about other programms, delivered in source ... do they work as good as under linux or are there more complications?

What are the most suprisingly differences you discovered? Did they turn good or bad?

I just ask, because I think of trying some BSD.. but would like to know a bit before I kill my actual system ... and I'd like so real-life experiences ... not some articles :-)

Thanks for your time.

Greetings, Sascha

It looks like your using Slack.
FreeBSD is very similar. I'm not sure about the other BSD's.
99.9% of things for linux are on FreBSD as well... KDE, GNOME, XFCE,
pretty much whatever you want.
The install is VERY Slack-like, though partitioning is a little different.
I recently installed FreeBSD 5.4 and have decided to use it exclusively.
I'm running a full on KDE with everything... K3b, Kooka, Gramps, Firefox,
the Gimp, Digikam with all the plugins, If you started using my machine
you would not know the diference between it and a Linux box.

I've been using Slackware exclusively for over a year with a brief excursion into Fedora 3. I had tried FreeBSD previously but couldn't make heads-or-tails of it; it seemed too foreign to me at the time. Recently I felt comfortable enough with how Slackware works to try FreeBSD again and I've been using it ever since. After going through the FreeBSD Handbook, reading other documentation, and working with it, I realized the differences between FBSD and Slackware are minor. FreeBSD DOES work differently, but nothing you can't adjust to.

You probably won't get everything pieced together correctly the first time--I had to reinstall and start over. The most frustrating thing that I've found so far is day number two of a portupgrade -a. It takes along time.

Kent

BSD can run what linux can, but BSD has its native apps of all that stuff, kde, gnome and so on

There is a sticky that you might have missed
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=177142

Hey guys!

Thanks a lot for your gooooood comments :-)

I think I will try FreeBSD next few days!

Thanks, Sascha