Re: [tlug] Gnome vs. KDE? BSD vs. Linux?

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:31:10AM +0100, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> 

> not much of a fan of gentoo personally - if I would go for Linux, I
> think I'll use Ubuntu. I have some experiences with that distribution
> and I know that the ppl around me are all using it on their desktops
> 
> Actually I'm more interested what the differences for the end-user are
> between Linux and BSD, not what the most BSD-like distribution is. I
> know that BSD is nice on servers with stuff like jails and ZFS is
> quite cool but those are not really things I care for on a laptop.

Then I would reiterate that you'll find a lot of bloat--some of it is
good though, in the sense that more things work out of the box or with a
simple apt-get install.  

Linux man and info pages, after using a BSD, can be painful.  
Things are kept in different places, as I mentioned before.  That was my
reason for recommending Arch, it takes less time to find things as it's
more BSD like.  

The lack of separation between kernel and userland can have its
advantages in that rather than upgrading the system, then ports, it's
all done at once.  (It's not perfect, and things break, but in
general, it works pretty well.)

There are GUIs for firewalls as well, depending upon how specifically
you want to lock down your machine, they can be adequate.  Although I
find PF to be more intuitive than IP tables, that could be habit--on
Ubuntu forums, someone was saying the opposite recently. 

It's far less of an adjustment than going to, for example, Windows from
BSD.  In many ways, one can say, to the end user, Unix is Unix (I'm
including the Unix-like systems).


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