FreeBSD

[qmna]

GO BSD!!! To tell the truth free-BSD is my very favorite OS  ever. There nothing that fast cool and stable as this one. Love it! It has never failed me. I do also use some Linux distros on my desktops (slackware, puppy, kubuntu) and RHEL on my HP proliant, but most of my staff runs free-BSD. celeron 600MGz 64 mb ram 10 g fujitsu IDE hdd, running free-BSD 7.3 as ftp server provides 13-30 MB/sec download speed on a hardware that about 14 years old. Can anything else but free-BSD do it?

[SharingEqualsCaring]

Why does Distro Watch classify it as "FreeBSD is a UN*X-like operating system"?

[emewify]

@SharingEqualsCaring because of legal reasons

[theif519]

I was thinking of trying out BSD for a bit, on a laptop just for the hell of it. Was thinking PC-BSD, but then I wouldn't be learning. Possibly going to try this.

[Azarien]

could you people just stop flaming what BSD is and what it is not on every BSD-related video? just go to Wikipedia and read.

[calucalu123]

bien ahi barrunto!

[mrHckyfan]

Later this year i plan on getting a new computer, and you can sure as hell bet ill be using this awesome OS, and telling gates to stick that service pack up his dick hole

[thatguywithnoname]

I really like the look of FreeBSD but I'm not sure it has as much of a community as Linux...

[TheCacashinha]

@thatguywithnoname freebsd is used by hackers

"linux for users" "freebsd for power users"

[thatguywithnoname]

@TheCacashinha Meh. If you use FreeBSD just so that people might sonsider you hacker, then you're probably just some stupid script kiddie...

[TheCacashinha]

@thatguywithnoname

hhhmm no dude i dont use it... i'm still learning linux :)

[Wodey25]

@thatguywithnoname The "look" of both products is 100% configurable by the user. FreeBSD might not have as many desktop users, but Linux users are spread across and fragmented into 2000 different distributions, whereas FreeBSD users all congregate in one place. As a result, the documentation is SUPER, and development is very well focused. FreeBSD is the bomb, and you'll find all the support you need with it; it's been this way since the 1990s. No worry about community; it's got a huge one.

[thatguywithnoname]

@Wodey25 When I said I like the look of it, I didn't mean aesthetically. I simply meant that although I haven't tried FreeBSD, it appears to be pretty decent. I may try it out after what you've just written... :)

[NullByte7]

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[aalan2703]

Simply Beautiful ^_^

[LikeLinux]

do you know that apple's OS (for computers) are based on this?

I heard it yesterday from a guy (he work's in a apple store)

so apple is also unix=D

but i prefer Linux (it's your choice;))

[kamilm122]

weird O_0 mayby it would look noobish but i though all the time that FreBSD is BSD and Linux is UNIX xDDDDDD :p

[zequelll]

UNIX rules. running FreeBSD 8 on laptop. it runs very well and every problem I have run into I have been able to work around :)

[zequelll]

*BSD IS UNIX

just not officially cause you have to pay the open group to use the name UNIX

[xiaovenucci]

I'm a little bit confused...

What's the really significant difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

Sorry for the bad english.

[Jamesthefishy]

@xiaovenucci openbsd branches off netbsd which branchs off of bsd 4.4 where freebsd just branchs off of bsd 4.4 and openbsd is geared towards security where freebsd is geared towards everything, servers, security, desktops, etc.

[MrJJackFLASH]

Yes, FreeBSD is UNIX.

BSD UNIX was developed at Berkley, UC, from the source code of Unix Version 6.

Ken Thompson himself gave it to the University.

[martmelee]

is there any advantages on freebsd over linux?, i've been using linux for years and my favorite distro is slackware, but im curious about freebsd, but i want to make sure if i'm going to get something different than all other linux experiences that i've had and not feel just like i'm trying another distro.

[hal970fx]

Periodically I get a raging hardon for FreeBSD and forget that the drivers still suck for my goddamn intel wireless card.

[xMandalorex]

i asusme you had to install load sof packegs to ge tmovie support and mp3 support yea?

[Yerzriknot]

Impressive setup you've got there. Does flash on FreeBSD? Do you have to use the Linux version?

[aalan2703]

Tu freebsd se ve bastante bien. Te felicito y quisiera hacerte una pregunta ¿Cual es tu opinion acerca del tinte corporativista y comercial que esta tomando Linux? ¿Crees que algun dia llegue a decepcionar a los presentes usuarios en pro de la libertad del Software como lo expresó Torvalds recientemente?

Saludos.

[psqtau]

FreeBSD isn't an UNIX!

[idexbsd]

@psqtau

Error, FreeBSD is UNIX!!!, you should to read a little of unix history.

[gr4tuitou5]

@idexbsd FreeBSD is directly decended from the original Unix, but UNIX is a trademark that you have to pay money to The Open Group and comply with some standards if you want to be able to call yourself a "UNIX".

[giorgosrag]

@idexbsd FreeBSD (and linux) based in UNIX. but freeBSD it's same like UNIX.

[Jamesthefishy]

@giorgosrag linux is a unix clone where freebsd started off with unix then removed all of its unix coding in the ATT lawsuit.

[someman7]

@idexbsd actually i've been told that since it technically depends on following the specs (ie degree of completion), Linux is now more unix than FreeBSD. I'm just saying, don't maul me.

Lol, look at Stroustrup.

[gzed777]

@idexbsd

No. it's you who should be getting his facts straight. FreeBSD lost all of its UNIX code once AT&T went into litigation mode. The FreeBSD community was forced to rewrite the bits and pieces that had to be removed due to the litigation with AT&T in the eighties.

Hence a only UNIX-Like OS.

[CabbageNappa]

@gzed777 FreeBSD has no AT&T code, but i believe it still has some BSD UNIX code

[zequelll]

@idexbsd

its not UNIX in a copyright sense solely because the open group has been sitting on and aggressively enforcing the trademark, but other than that it is most certainly UNIX and a very fine one

[emewify]

bsd is unix.. freebsd is a descendant of that but because of legal reasons you cant call it unix its unix-like maybe you should read a little as well

[DMBoyCloud]

@idexbsd He doesn't need to read, you already tell him!

[Jamesthefishy]

@psqtau FreeBSD is the Free Berkeley Software Distribution, Which branched from Berkeley Software Distribution, which branched from Unix. Where Gnu is unix tool clones in a standardized form and linux is some crappy unix clone kernel.

[soulknifehunter]

@Jamesthefishy

Linux was created by Linus because he needed a cheaper/free version of Minix. I watched an interview of Linus and that is straight from his mouth.

[gpanos85]

@psqtau LOOL FreeBSD ISN't A UNIX? LOOOL That's a new Joke. FreeBSD IS ONE OF THE FIRST OPERATING SYSTEMS. When BSD jerked in 70's~80's Machintosh and Linux grew up from its sperms.

[Wodey25]

@psqtau Are you stuck on stupid??? FreeBSD is the most UNIX unix out there, along with Solaris.

[davinci377]

it's cool, u know ..........but it's not more easier than linux, up to the developer arre too lazy ....

[smartarted]

What were you using for 3d effects, compiz?

[idexbsd]

3desktop

[itsbrad212]

@smartarted Umm, that's not even possible to run compiz with fluxbox. They are both window managers

[WeedingWaimbow]

WHat where you doing on those four bash?(I think thats what they where)

[AngeredKabar]

I'd be using freebsd on my lappy, but my ethernet port is broken and the bwi driver (or the v3 firmware) doesn't work too well on my wireless card.

FreeBSD 8 is running on my desktop in my room.

[opendevs]

He is using compiz.. Its just FreeBSD.

[magma80]

what model is your DELL laptop?

[cyborgtroy]

Looks like the Inspiron 1705. I have one, it's pretty nice.

[idexbsd]

inspiron 6400 (centrino duo)

[nublitron123]

wow. I have the same computer lol

[cobrafazea]

aha ....i got one of these .... dualCore ....not very much of power , but its cool

[sepulg10L]

what's is the program that you are using to rotate yor desktops?????????

que programa usas para rotar los escritorios????

[idexbsd]

yo utilizo 3ddesktop para hacer las rotaciones entre mis escritorios.