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braincat · Post by **braincat** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:36 pm

Does it matter how it is called? FreeBSD lost the edge sometime

ago, and their 6.x release series was not up to their former

standard either. I've been running it for about 10 years by then,

and could not stand constant crashes anymore. The development

team was not the same either... loyalty has its limits. Linux

has been good for me.

ComteZero · Post by **ComteZero** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:14 pm

i made the inverse path. starting with kernel 1.2 on linux around 16years ago. then i felt that linux was getting more and more opaque (first with redhat and then even with debian) : user cannot trace what really is done on its system (reason why i left windows).

i felt linux was more a bazar. why it installed KDE _AND_ GNOME when i only asked to install Xorg ?

so i gave up and switched to FreeBSD, first for my servers then for my desktop. i feel it's more integrated and gives back more clarity to user.

never had to reboot. uptime are in months. there's a story of company forgetting where was the server (physically).

but i agree, last installs with 7.0 and 7.1, had to sort out few problems.

happy to have your view on linux, i abandonned it 5y ago but your post make me think that i could be interesting to install debian somewhere to check how it evolved...

tristanreid · Post by **tristanreid** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:19 pm

For the desktop, you might want to check out Ubuntu.

-t.

signalseeker · Post by **signalseeker** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:32 pm

I second ubuntu. Good documentation, community support and abundant packages make it very easy to use and productive. Whatever you choose, stay away from redhat enterprise unless you like using 5 year old packages.