On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Ede Wolf wrote:
It isn't. FreeBSD is for Internet servers and people who want a desktop
that acts and feels like a classical UNIX workstation of the 90's.
Does xfce or KDE behave differently when running under FreeBSD? Pretty
much the same, really, as far as I can tell. Provided, your hardware
is supported, of course.
You probably should have mentioned Gnome 3, because to the extent it's
been possible to package on FreeBSD at all, it's been because the
developers have had to mold their OS infrastructure around it, as they
did before years ago for other Linux software back when HAL was all the
rage in the Linux world. (The FreeBSD developers made their own HAL
back then.) Here we are again, watching them trying to create
BSD-licensed base-OS daemons that do the same thing as ones Linux has
created so they can run some user-space software that needs them, and
there are still issues with Gnome 3 on FreeBSD, despite the efforts.
My only intended point in the passage you quoted was that if you're
trying to get a vanilla UNIX workstation feel like you might have had on
Solaris or Tru64 fifteen years ago, but on a modern desktop PC, FreeBSD
will probably do that better than anything. It wasn't trying to infer
that it's worse for a particular desktop, though since you mention it,
in the case of Gnome 3, actually it *is* worse for a particular desktop.
And linux is running one or the other internet server as well. At
least so the rumours go.
And because I said FreeBSD is good for Internet servers, that means I
think Linux isn't? Don't put more into it than what I actually said.
--
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+ Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
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