[PLUG] Linux Desktop - Time to make the change

John Purser jmpurser at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 14:50:00 UTC 2005


David Fleck wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, John Purser wrote:
>
>> I started off with FreeBSD.  I found the Linux community MUCH 
>> friendlier to beginners. The documentation was more complete as 
>> well.  That was years ago. I might take a little peek again to see if 
>> FreeBSD has changed as much as I have.
>
>
> Probably not.  I think it's great, but FreeBSD isn't for everyone.  
> The documentation is still too sparse, and while I have never noticed 
> any specific newbie-unfriendliness on the mailing lists I follow, that 
> may be because I'm not a newbie.  It's not an OS I'd recommend to 
> anyone with lots of multimedia toys or cutting-edge hardware, but 
> that's not an issue for me - what I do care about is stability, speed, 
> system transparency, and customizability.  And robust software install 
> & upgrades.
>
>
> -- 
> David Fleck
> david.fleck at mchsi.com
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Oh I didn't mean the FreeBSD crowd was UNFRIENDLY.  They just were no 
where NEAR as encouraging as the Linux community for newbies.  RTFM is a 
great answer if you already know enough to know WHICH "M" should be 
read.  If not it's a tad, well, sparse.

But I'm not a newbie anymore either.  This could be interesting and I've 
got a 10 gig partition just BEGGING for something to do....

John Purser



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