Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 15:49:54 -0400 (EDT) From: matt <matt@AIC-GW.MLINK.NET> To: FreeBSD-QUESTIONS <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: FreeBSD-ADVOCACY <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: My story of how I moved to FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906261534280.14517-100000@aic-gw.mlink.net>
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Well, I started out with Linux about 2.5 years ago, I loved it, thought it was a nice easy way to learn *nix, but once I started to learn more and more I realized that Linux just wasn't the right OS for me.. So I looked into OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, hell even Solaris 7.. My first choice was OpenBSD 2.4 at the time, I liked it and still do, as a dedicated server, but it's ports collections and compatibilty was just too poor as a desktop for my liking.. So I moved onto FreeBSD, ever since there's been NO looking back, I run several Linux applications now in FreeBSD that run better then they did in Linux, I feel comfortable with FreeBSD, it's STABLE as a rock, and handles load and memory terrifically, I've NEVER gotten the machine to swap (with 256M ram on a 400Mhz Celeron) not even during a make world to -STABLE, the package handling and ports tree amazed me, and I guess the whole point of this letter is to say look, Linux is a nice OS for people new to *nix, it has a nice easy kernel configuration, though once you get used to the changes from Linux to FreeBSD kernel wise, it's a breeze, and makes life so much easier in my opinion, ie; I have a second box with mostly the same hardware, quick copy of my kernel file and poof, It worked like a charm.. The documentation for FreeBSD is also TERRIFIC the handbook helped me out GREATLY in making over the change, as did the FreeBSD mailing lists something Linux severely lacks, However, FreeBSD lacks the cross-platform support that it needs, my friend for instance wanted to run it on a powerpc MAC, but he couldn't, so he decided to use NetBSD instead, it's something we really need to work on, but ever since I moved to FreeBSD, I'll never look back again.. Keep up the good work, and lets make FreeBSD the best it can be.. I guess the point of this email is really just to credit the coders and helpers and above all, the users of FreeBSD.. I'm so happy that there is an OS out there that REALLY fits my needs.. BTW, this is posted to questions@ because there's been some talk about linux vs. freebsd there.. There is one thing though, we NEED thread-aware Xlibraries, if such a thing already exists ( I know it does for Linux ) please inform me of where to get it... xmms doesn't like to run without them.. Take care people.. My apologies if anyone thinks this is a pointless letter.. Matt -- matt@AIC-GW.MLINK.NET To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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