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View Poll Results: FreeBSD or NetBSD
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08-29-2005, 06:58 PM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: ~
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
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FreeBSD or NetBSD
Wanna try as many *nix distros and flavor as possible, including BSD...
What do you prefer? |
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08-29-2005, 07:02 PM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Albany, Western Australia
Distribution: Mageia 2, SME Server 8
Posts: 611
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You left out FreeSBIE 
floppy |
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08-29-2005, 07:03 PM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: ~
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
Posts: 843
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Is it good?
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08-29-2005, 07:08 PM
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Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
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I voted for FreeBSD though I think NetBSD is very good as well. The main reason for my vote is because I think the freebsd ports system is better than netbsds pkgsrc.
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08-29-2005, 07:11 PM
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Registered: May 2003
Location: S.W. Ohio
Distribution: Ubuntu, OS X
Posts: 760
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If you have never tried one of the BSD'S then, yes it it good.
I prefer chocolate chip  |
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08-29-2005, 11:23 PM
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Registered: May 2004
Location: New Lenox, IL
Distribution: Fedora Core 4; Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Preview); CentOS 4
Posts: 81
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Hey, what about OpenBSD? Or DragonFly?
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08-30-2005, 05:44 AM
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: singapore
Distribution: puppy and Ubuntu and ... erh ... redhat(sort of) :( ... + the venerable bsd and solaris ^_^
Posts: 658
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once i also wanted to go for openbsd , my impression of it is kind of more "hardcore" and i like things "hardcore" , but when i went to their site , i just cant find any ready-to-burn cd iso images so i went for freebsd instead , luckily there are ready-to-burn cd iso images for it , so i got them burned , 3 cds , if not i would had go for netbsd instead ...
btw , it seems that you pretty much covers everything(and thats good) except for owning a solaris yourself ...
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08-30-2005, 12:15 PM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: ~
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
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good feedback
I hope that I don't have to learn everything all over again when I try *BSD ...
Fortunatly, it's only going to be an experiment, not my main OS.
But it doesn't look like there is a big diff between *nix and *BSD |
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08-30-2005, 12:22 PM
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: singapore
Distribution: puppy and Ubuntu and ... erh ... redhat(sort of) :( ... + the venerable bsd and solaris ^_^
Posts: 658
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hard to say , although its still *nix , you still had to learn something which are different(or totally different??) from linux , go for it ...... linux , bsd , x86 solaris , you get the picture ...
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08-30-2005, 02:58 PM
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: England, South East
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 358
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For my desktop i prefer FreeBSD because it runs kde very well and has lots of ports, OpenBSD didn't with the same apps was alot slower. And i'm guessing hes just put free and net because they are the 2 father BSDs, open being a fork of net and dragonfly being a fork of freebsd 4.
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08-30-2005, 03:44 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Chennai, India
Distribution: PCLinuxOS .92, FC4
Posts: 840
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I prefer FreeBSD as that is the only BSD I have installed and worked with |
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