/gentoo/ - Technology

>>190
FreeBSD is more UNIX-like than Linux is.

FreeBSD has Jails, ZFS and DTrace. I know ZFS and DTrace are on Linux but they are included on the FreeBSD 10 installation media.

The nice thing about FreeBSD is that it's not just a kernel with userspace ported for it, it's a whole operating system written from the bottom so kernel and userspace fit together.

GNU and Linux are hacked together.

FreeBSD is supposedly better for handling large amounts of internet traffic, Facebook is trying to make Linux just as good if not better at the moment.

>>200
What about stuff like driver support? How does it handle the desktop? I heard it's pretty damn good on servers, but then again Linux also has a lion's share on servers too.

>>207
FreeBSD is great for servers, because of traffic handling.
OpenBSD is great for routers, because of security. OpenBSD is surprisingly better for laptops as the devs dogfood.
Linux is great for servers except but not better than FreeBSD and OpenBSD in their respective fields.

Linux is a better option for a desktop at this point, PC-BSD is getting nicer by the hour.

Audio is a pain setting up on OpenBSD and FreeBSD compared to Ubuntu and PC-BSD which has audio OOTB.
There is Nvidia driver support for Linux and PC-/FreeBSD.

>>190
Essentially,*BSD is where everything good on Linux originated. ZFS, for instance, came from FreeBSD. The *BSDs are also much more stable and secure than Linux (especially OpenBSD) and require less maintenance than Linux.

>>207
Most drivers are ported from Linux. GPU support is about like Linux.

>>218
So how was the experience? I want to try BSD on my desktop.

>>242
You should try it out, FreeBSD is really nice but localization is a pain so it's really great when you are American (I'm not though).

I still like the OS.

>>253
>localization

So, if I'm an American that routes all of my traffic through Sweden…

>>255
That's not a problem.

I just have had trouble using æøå on FreeBSD.
PC-BSD has it working OOTB though.

>>255

I'm curious about DragonFly. I heard that the reason they diverged from FBSD was multithreaded scaling. As a heavy multitasker, I think it might be better for me, although seeing some HAMMER vs ZFS benches has me a bit scared. Should I just stick with FreeBSD?

>>256
Is there anything different between FreeBSD and PC-BSD other than preconfigured GUI and settings?

>>258
It has things like PBI packages but it is 100% FreeBSD compatible.

It's like the difference between Ubuntu without a GUI and Ubuntu with Unity

>>260
Awesome.