I do not agree. There is nothing foolish. I'm using FreeBSD as a Workstation for the last 5 years, around 12.0 I think it was , and it's going very well for me.
I am missing nothing from Linux land and for sure not from Windows or Mac land.
I do not agree. There is nothing foolish. I'm using FreeBSD as a Workstation for the last 5 years, around 12.0 I think it was , and it's going very well for me.
Apple actually produced hardware boxes that they marketed as 'servers'... The company discontinued the sales of that edition.
Isn't NFS merely an implementation of ISCSI to begin with?
So, unless you have a good remote access control mechanism in place, you can sit in Belgium, stick a USB stick into your physical machine, and forget about it. Then someone can, without flying in from the Australia, just format it, and even dd a fresh FreeBSD install iso on it.
After all, as cracauer@ pointed out:Doesn't NFS has less security.So, unless you have a good remote access control mechanism in place, you can sit in Belgium, stick a USB stick into your physical machine, and forget about it. Then someone can, without flying in from the Australia, just format it, and even dd a fresh FreeBSD install iso on it.
Remember when Apple used to sell rack-mounted Mac servers? 1U pizza boxes? I've heard from multiple sources that most of them were not actually run with MacOS on them; instead, people used them to boot AIX, since it was the cheapest way to get 1U PowerPC servers, and they were (like most Apple hardware) very well built, reliable, and fast. And a third or a fifth of the price of equivalent IBM gear.
I use FreeBSD and occasionally, Fedora, if it is necessary to use Linsux. (I don't use Linuxulator for security reasons)
Well, you'd be wrong. I haven't touched a windoze or Mc-puter in several years. And what y'all seem to not understand is that it is NOT about improving desktop. It's about segregating and isolating application suites from the core OS. When you start to bundle is when you introduce a bias into the ecosystem toward certain functionalities. Everybody has their pet use, and hopefully the project leadership is wise and strong enough to keep those dogs at bay.
Sorry, but allow me to disagree here... isolating GUI applications from the core OS is actually a fantastic design idea - Hell, this is how Firefox looks and works the same on FreeBSD and Windoze... Core OS provides the process space, then the application takes advantage of it. Same goes for WireShark.
no. we are saying the same thing so no need to disagree.
Such a valid point. This is why I think it may be in everyone's interest or preference to split such efforts into a separate distributed installation image. This way if the effort is ever dropped it will just kill an optional image from the build process.
And how can Firefox work the same way, if I have repeatedly come across the statement on the forum that Firefox under FreeBSD is cut down (castrated). If this is so, then where can I read in detail about the fact that Firefox under FreeBSD is castrated and to what extent?
People are suffering psychic damage from "resources" being diverted to this endeavor as if they had a vote in what people just want to work on.
For a start, looking in the ports directory for Makefiles, and Gecko. Also, looking at source code. It helps to document as you learn, and for some, I show what I learned so others can see the difference and understand the status of the software they're working with. In my experience, a combination of the internet, books if applicable, trial and error, mailing lists and documentation. You can try searching on Mozilla's website, and defining what features you believe are missing. You can also get hints and suggestions in IRC.
I think that USerID wanted pointers to blogs and YouTube videos where people actually complain how a recent version of Firefox is so wonderful on Windows because it runs Flash and .webm animations - and that they cannot get the same thing on FreeBSD. But if you do just a little bit of research and problem solving (like people do on these Forums), most of those differences are actually easy to solve, and the experience is actually quite comparable.
As for Flash, forget about it. It used to give me a headache, on rare occasions when I got it to work, it crashed my FreeBSD system. Flash only worked well on NetBSD then, bc the system's ports were more stable and standard, to compensate for the unstableness of Flash.
Steve Jobs' vision was to replace Flash with applications working with HTML 5. (I didn't like Steve Jobs at all, but he was correct to do this.) This got done years after his passing. Now that Flash is no longer mainstream, we don't need it. I won't use Adobe products, if I can help it. They didn't listen to users who wanted Flash support for FreeBSD. Adobe also makes things unnecessarily complicated for their idea of keeping market share.
