BSD?
Just wondering if the LUG deals with FreeBSD or some such? There's a lot of trash talking about FreeBSD vs. Linux. Just wondering. I've heard good about linux, but better about FreeBSD personally. Anyone have personal experience or an opinion?
(Feel free to tree talk and some such. I have no problem with people being frank and open.)
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One of our prior presidents (Aaron) was really into having us be an 'open' group instead of Linux-specific, and we've kind of kept that going (not that we wouldn't talk about/help BSD or other *nix types beforehand).
If someone would like to do a BSD presentation (or some BSD-specific presentation) or OS X (basically, as long as it's a *nix type ;)) we could work that into our schedule.
My only beef with BSD is they're tools are 'outdated' (tar, cp, etc.) compared to what I'm used to with Linux. Also the usual caveat of not being familiar with the BSD layout (/dev/asd0s1p4 ;)), but I am with Linux.
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Eric Sandall
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Erik loves BSD
Erik was the guy who really really loves BSD.
It's all about getting work done without selling out. I personally cared most about free sofware (GPL style).
I've tried Desktop BSD and it was ok. It was built of an older FreeBSD though, and it didn't support my laptop well.
I run gentoo on my desktop, and ubuntu on my laptop. I have a nokia 770 PDA. No BSD boxes up right now.
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The name *Linux* Users Group is kind of a misnomer. We have users of all kinds of unix systems, from FreeBSD to MacOS X. Personally, I've used both. I bought a Mac mini for my mom, so I played with OS X for a while on it. I also installed FreeBSD on my home machine a few years back. It worked really well, but it was just enough different from Linux to make me uncomfortable.
I commercially supported a BSDi system for a while. It was a lot like FreeBSD.
One thing that I thought was kind of neat about FreeBSD is that where Linux has console blanking, FreeBSD has fully graphical screensavers on the console.
The major difference between Linux and FreeBSD (and most of the BSDs) is the coherency of the project. The entire core project is built by the same team instead of everyone doing their own thing like with Linux. Other software is available using the "ports" system (the inspiration behind Gentoo's "portage"). This development style means that FreeBSD is much more coherent, but progress is somewhat slower than with Linux.
You'll find that Linux normally supports hardware before FreeBSD, but FreeBSD is known for being more stable.