BSD Platform for Workstation?
 

Hey guys.

I am a gentoo vet and am wondering which BSD platform would be the best workstation platform for me. I basically want a cutting-edge and feature-full platform that handles lots of tasks with ease.

I am trying to put my old workstation to use. I think experimenting with BSD would be a great use. Anyone have any ideas of which would be the best for me?

Thanks in advance.

why would u want to go to *bsd from linux ???
anyway i think that FREEBSD is cutting edge and also it has the ports system as in gentoo (actually gentoo has the ports system from bsd)

freebsd

Why wouldn't you? And to answer the original poster, FreeBSD... definately. :)

i actually moved from freebsd to gentoo as a workstation os. but for server, freebsd :)

thanks for the fast replies guys.

I personally just wanted to try BSD out. I heard that Gentoo and FreeBSD also share some very similar charactaristics. Thanks for the input. I will get FreeBSD ASAP and post some results. :)

Thanks again, guys :)

Also, keep an eye on the progress of DragonFly BSD. It forked off FreeBSD because its main developer believes he can do better than FreeBSD 5.x. There's a chance he may prove out to be right. ;)

only similiar characteristics ive spotted with freebsd/gentoo is ports system and portage.