FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Is Ready 267
ocipio writes: "The FreeBSD team announced that 4.4-RELEASE is available for download. There are a whole bunch of changes and notes. Please be sure to use a mirror." Those installing for the first time will no doubt find chapter two of the Handbook invaluable.
Why I use FreeBSD (Score:4, Insightful)
2. ports collection
3. single file (/etc/make.conf) for managing compile-time options and a master ftp server
4. VM
5. ports collection
6. no rpm or deb files
7. ports collection
8. linux binary compatibility
9. ports collection
10. softupdates
11. securelevel
12. make world
I converted all my computers from linux to FreeBSD about six months ago and never looked back. I find FreeBSD much simpler to manage, automate, and secure than any other *NIX (I haven't given OpenBSD a try yet).
There is no "journaled" filesystem since softupdates does a really good job and imporves the fs performance.
Oh, BTW, did I mention the ports collection?
'nuff said
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What I like and dislike about FreeBSD (Score:5, Insightful)
Dumb noob question (Score:3, Insightful)
A balanced OS (Score:1, Insightful)
The only woe I have is the plugin support for browsers. Most of them are binary only and built for Linux. Never seems to work for Mozilla (running under linux emulation) so I have to resort to buggy Netscape.
A lot of stuff out there uses Java or Shockwave...I just hate not being able to view them.
Re:What I like and dislike about FreeBSD (Score:1, Insightful)
Thats correct but they have "soft updates", thus making jounalling unnecessary. Different religion, solves same problem...
http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/