Re: FreeBSD & Linux distro

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
use as a desktop system. Contrary to that impression, I'm sending this

what is "desktop system" and "server system"?

AFAIK it just depends of software installed, and it can be both..
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FreeBSD as a desktop compared to other OS's? I think there are
technical, community and attitude differences which prevent FreeBSD from
competing as a desktop.

There is at least very strong consensus in the OpenBSD community and much
less in FreeBSD community that the systems are developed by developers for
the developer and alike on the base of the
technical merit not cheap tricks. I am as a non-developer just getting a
free ride. FreeBSD is a free system and doesn't have customers to please.
It is developed by the people in their spare time to the best possible for
their needs. (They are not necessary the same as yours and mine)


Those Desktop users that you want to attract would not benefit from FreeBSD
nor FreeBSD community would benefit from them.


Support for USB devices seems better in Linux too. The number of times
people would come in and say why don't you use Linux and I would say
FreeBSD is better and they would say well plug this USB ethernet adapter
in and see if it works then, and it wouldn't.

If you knew how to alter permissions and do auto-mount you would see too.


If you want to do video editing on FreeBSD you can't use the main free
software application, Cinelerra. It's not ported to FreeBSD and from
what I've read it won't be - something to do with ALSA drivers I
believe.

Please, do not even go there.
ALSA vs OSS story is one of the darkest chapters in the Linux development.
Read this before we go any further

http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=5


Also multimedia functionality generally is far more developed
on Mac and windows.

yes. So what? OS X is life style operating system. My friends in Apple are
making living by pleasing their customers.

I would be really interested to know how the FreeBSD
kernel compares to the Linux realtime kernel. Are there any recent
benchmarks? Something like Kris Kennaway's fantastic mySQL benchmarks
presentation?


What is your point? Your desktop computer is faster than mine? That is
irrelevant for the discussion about FreeBSD on the desktop.
By the way, I proudly say as mostly OpenBSD user that OpenBSD scales the
worst out of all *nix operating systems.



I'm sure none of these things are impossible, simply I get the
impression they are not very interesting to the people who decide the
direction of FreeBSD.

There are other differences which I think come down to the overall size
of the development community. I'm sure FreeBSD has all the components to
allow a nice icon and directory window appear automagically on the
desktop when you plug your removeable drive or camera in.

It does on mine. You have to know how to configure the damn thing.


I guess there
must be some sort of similarity between the number of people doing
Debian development and the number of people doing FreeBSD development.
The difference with Linux is that there are hundreds of other dev
communities taking Debian or whatever as a starting point and
configuring it for different out-of-the-box use. Hence ubuntu and all
the others.

Hence the PC-BSD, DekstopBSD, TrueBSD, RuFreeSBIE, MidnightBSD and all the
others. There are in total over 40 distros based on FreeBSD. At least 10
of them that I know of have as a stated goal to be customized easy to use
FreeBSD installation on the Desktop.




There are comparatively very few desktop development
projects that take FreeBSD as a starting point.


With all due respect you are just ill informed. Look the above.
Sorry to burst your bubble but PC-BSD is much easier to install and run
than your Ubuntu. If PC-BSD/FreeBSD had a native Flash supports and if
they
succeed to automatic creation of PBI for all 18000 ports PC-BSD would
smoke the Ubuntu as the number one Grand Ma Milly OS by a mile.



Cheers,
Predrag

P.S. I am not trying to participate in a flame war or a troll so this is
going to be my last message on this thread.


Hence rolling your own X
and desktop setup in FreeBSD let alone automounter and a hundred other
things.

This is not meant to be an anti-FreeBSD rant, I love FreeBSD, it has
some sort of quality and ease of use which I find hard to define, which
is different to the 'ease of use' of windows or ubuntu (see I can't even
give them capital letters) and which I wouldn't swap for anything. But I
do think there is also some refusal or maybe just lack of resource


to engage with a completely different view of what computers are
for that the vast majority of the computer population has, an attitude
exemplified by the comment that started me off on this rant.

Chris
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