bbzz said:I always found it funny that people choose OS that will run on their shiny new hardware, rather than hardware that will run on a shiny, new, and secure OS.
Lorem-Ipsum said:The one thing keeping me back is that I like a bleeding edge system on the desktop and there doesn't seem to be a *BSD that fills that category.
Amzo said:Well, everyone has their different reasons for using FreeBSD, whether it be on a Desktop or a Server. I am curious as to why people choose it over other operating systems such as Linux, Windows or OSX.
Personally for me, I have numerous reason, the first most is, that there seems to be more professionalism involved. The community seems more mature, while compared to the Linux community (Even though it doesn't apply to everyone in that community) which seems to be filled with elitism, arrogance, ignorance and prepubescents wanna be hackers. Who generally believe to be more knowledgeable than they actually are. I think this comes because most have been Windows users, and the little jump from Windows to Linux has fueled their ignorance.
The license was also another reason, while there is the above that also applies to the license of the users being fanatical about the license, with general responses to anyone who doesn't use GNU/Linux being "Why do you hate Freedom" because I generally don't agree with GPL. They're like contradictory religious fanatics. If I write some code, whether it be based on someone else's code and I extended, freedom to me would be deciding whether or not my code be proprietary. GPL doesn't offer this freedom, while BSDl does.
As well as those two issues I have, another is with Linus and Richard Stallman them selfs. They seem to fit in with the elitism of the community, and generally troll, preach and show complete arrogance and closed mindedness.
Overall it seems like a complete cesspool or arrogance, prepubescents and general annoyance, with little professionalism at all.
Hence my comment in another thread about questionable new posters.kpa said:You must be talking about something else than FreeBSD and some other forums, FreeBSD does not have "distros"
No, when someone asks about PC-BSD, FreeNAS, etc. we suggest that they will probably get a more relevant response if they ask their question on the forum(s) dedicated to those releases. [Cite]GreenMeanie said:Have you read these FORUMS at all?
Most people here tell others to go use another Distro when asking questions.
Oh you can't leave that hanging out there like that.Terry_Kennedy said:Some recent changes / behavior / decisions have made me think about it, though.
No one thing, but off the top of my head:drhowarddrfine said:Oh you can't leave that hanging out there like that.
Terry_Kennedy said:No one thing, but off the top of my head:
Whatever problems caused at least one long-term committer (dougb) to leave.
You could start here.nslay said:Doug Barton left!? When did that happen? That's a terrible loss!!!
Is there a mailing list post detailing his departure? I'm quite saddened by this ...
I wonder if someone might someday put up a third-party cvsup equivalent...Terry_Kennedy said:No one thing, but off the top of my head:
Springing the "CVS is dead" on everybody and still not having equivalents of net/cvsup-mirror and net/cvsup-without-gui available to work with SVN, nor any clear and concise directions for doing it "from scratch".
mv /usr/ports/distfiles /usr/distfiles
mv /usr/ports/packages /usr/packages
mv /usr/ports /usr/ports.bak
/bin/rm -rf /usr/ports.bak/distfiles
/bin/rm -rf /usr/ports.bak/packages
svn co svn://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports # or east
# wait...
mv /usr/packages /usr/ports/packages
mv /usr/distfiles /usr/ports/distfiles
# delete unwanted files in /usr/ports.bak ...
# later, to csup.
script -a /tmp/svn_today29.log svn up /usr/ports
# an rsync exclude file
- /ports/.svn
- /src/.svn
- .svn
# end of rsync exclude file
cd [FILE]/usr/ports[/FILE] && make fetchindex
nslay said:How can we evolve Unix for the modern computing world (tablet/phone/cloud/etc)? We need some innovation ... FreeBSD is always playing catch-up it seems.