I'm not sure if someone else has posted about this already, but a story was posted on Slashdot about using FreeBSD as a desktop:
http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/11/11/08/1332241/in-favor-of-freebsd-on-the-desktop
The original story wasn't even specific to running FreeBSD as a desktop, it was a more general discussion of reasons to consider using FreeBSD for any purpose. However, I'm amazed by how much hate was expressed against FreeBSD (and the other BSDs as well) based on the comments in the original article and the comments on Slashdot. You can check out other similar comments at OSNews as well. It seems utterly hypocritical of Linux users to persecute another open source OS since it wasn't too long ago that Linux was considered a "toy" OS. Can't they objectively acknowledge the merits of FreeBSD? Isn't it a good thing to have other good choices in the OSS world? I just don't understand the constant hate FreeBSD receives whenever it's mentioned on tech sites.
http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/11/11/08/1332241/in-favor-of-freebsd-on-the-desktop
The original story wasn't even specific to running FreeBSD as a desktop, it was a more general discussion of reasons to consider using FreeBSD for any purpose. However, I'm amazed by how much hate was expressed against FreeBSD (and the other BSDs as well) based on the comments in the original article and the comments on Slashdot. You can check out other similar comments at OSNews as well. It seems utterly hypocritical of Linux users to persecute another open source OS since it wasn't too long ago that Linux was considered a "toy" OS. Can't they objectively acknowledge the merits of FreeBSD? Isn't it a good thing to have other good choices in the OSS world? I just don't understand the constant hate FreeBSD receives whenever it's mentioned on tech sites.