Anyone moved to a member of the BSD family?
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Funny you should say that, I was testing out what it would take to setup a FreeBSD desktop in a VM last night. I had to freeze the VM as it was getting way too late and I needed to go to bed (could've left the computer on but didn't want to).
I was just building a basic XFCE environment from ports. I did like being able to choose all the options for everything when building it. I've always put BSDs strengths in server applications and was interested to see it as a desktop.
I was just building a basic XFCE environment from ports. I did like being able to choose all the options for everything when building it. I've always put BSDs strengths in server applications and was interested to see it as a desktop.
A lot of the configurations I did just chose the default options, so probably could save some time with binaries. The FreeBSD installer with zfs on root is a nice feature.
I'll spend some more time on it this weekend. Although if I really want to try/learn it I should install it on an actual machine rather than a VM. If I were to use it, I think it would probably be on a storage server. There always seems to be some random program that means I'd need to use linux or Windows or OSX on my desktop.
I'll spend some more time on it this weekend. Although if I really want to try/learn it I should install it on an actual machine rather than a VM. If I were to use it, I think it would probably be on a storage server. There always seems to be some random program that means I'd need to use linux or Windows or OSX on my desktop.
Yep. OS X back in 2006.
OS X has the advantage of a unix base but with the popularity that means software is developed to run natively on it. I think the big ones are the Adobe suites and Lightroom etc.
I read a rumour that they were going to incorporate ZFS, which would've been great. They could still do it, but they've pretty much abandoned the server side.