I think it's time for me to take one of the BSDs for a spin.
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I think it's time for me to take one of the BSDs for a spin.
What's the hardware support situation like? Worse than Linux, or about the same, or about the same but slower?
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I think it's time for me to take one of the BSDs for a spin.
What's the hardware support situation like? Worse than Linux, or about the same, or about the same but slower?
@ajroach42 I bet @peteorrall or @stefano might have an opinion on that. 😅
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@ajroach42 I bet @peteorrall or @stefano might have an opinion on that. 😅
@SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 @stefano
The BSDs are *awesome* operating systems. #FreeBSD is a high performance general purpose OS. It is modern #Unix. #NetBSD is for portability, it supports nearly every CPU architecture under the sun. #OpenBSD is security-focused. #DragonflyBSD is a FreeBSD fork focused on the desktop.
Most of my experience is with FreeBSD, which I will enthusiastically share. It is unquestionably a solid server OS. As a desktop OS, it works quite well. It definitely does not feel like "Linux from 2004." The major desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME #XFCE are all supported and #nvidia releases drivers for the OS too. Modern hardware is supported. For *cutting edge hardware*, #Linux may be the better bet here. It's a little slower to adopt cutting edge gear because it is focused on stability and elegant solutions, not trend-chasing.
FreeBSD is an excellent OS to learn. It runs beautifully and it's more coherent and better designed. Documentation is *solid*.
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@SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 @stefano
The BSDs are *awesome* operating systems. #FreeBSD is a high performance general purpose OS. It is modern #Unix. #NetBSD is for portability, it supports nearly every CPU architecture under the sun. #OpenBSD is security-focused. #DragonflyBSD is a FreeBSD fork focused on the desktop.
Most of my experience is with FreeBSD, which I will enthusiastically share. It is unquestionably a solid server OS. As a desktop OS, it works quite well. It definitely does not feel like "Linux from 2004." The major desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME #XFCE are all supported and #nvidia releases drivers for the OS too. Modern hardware is supported. For *cutting edge hardware*, #Linux may be the better bet here. It's a little slower to adopt cutting edge gear because it is focused on stability and elegant solutions, not trend-chasing.
FreeBSD is an excellent OS to learn. It runs beautifully and it's more coherent and better designed. Documentation is *solid*.
@peteorrall @SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 well said, Pete. There's not much I could add. Note that the modern suspension to ram isn't currently supported, but they're working on it
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@peteorrall @SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 well said, Pete. There's not much I could add. Note that the modern suspension to ram isn't currently supported, but they're working on it
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@peteorrall @SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 well said, Pete. There's not much I could add. Note that the modern suspension to ram isn't currently supported, but they're working on it
@stefano @SrRochardBunson @ajroach42
I will add the #FreeBSD team has made *significant* efforts to improve the desktop experience, particularly on laptops. Each release just gets better.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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8. una volta che Berlusconi non serviva più e le sue relazioni personali con #Putin erano "l'unico motivo di attrito in una relazione altrimenti quasi priva di attrito", come scriveva l'ambasciatore dell'amm. di George W. Bush, #RonaldSpogli, game out:
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7. una volta finito il grosso del lavoro di trasformazione dell'Italia nella piattaforma di lancio delle guerre USA - operazione che non aveva solo trasformato l'Italia in un ingranaggio chiave della macchina da guerra USA,ma aveva dilaniato la sinistra-Berlusconi non serviva più
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@Ali_per_Viaggiare perché "purtroppo"? @Otttoz
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6. #Berlusconi era,probabilmente convinto che concedere tutto agli Stati Uniti,costruire una special relationship con gli americani a scapito dell'UE,lasciarli trasformare l'Italia nella piattaforma di lancio delle guerre USA, ecc. lo aveva reso un intoccabile. Ma sbagliava
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5. #Berlusconi era consapevole che, costruendo una relazione speciale Italia-USA a scapito dell'UE, avrebbe incassato dividendi politici e mazzolato #Prodi,inviso agli USA di Bush proprio perché riallineava la politica estera italiana all'UE
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4. #Minniti aveva capito a *sinistra* che, ballando il ballo che voleva l'America di George W. Bush, #Berlusconi aveva fatto bingo. Ma il problema era che,a sinistra, #Prodi insisteva con allineare la politica estera all'UE:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06ROME839_a.html
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@Gina @bert_hubert If we're quoting "The Wire": "A man gotta have a code" s,a,the
