Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 5 jun 2015 01:07 skrev "Tim Aslat" <t...@spyderweb.com.au>: > > Hi all, > > I have been using FreeBSD on desktop for about 10 years. I fell in love > with the ports collection after running into binary package hell with > Redhat linux in the early 2000s, and decided it would make an > interesting desktop OS as well. > > My only problem with FreeBSD as a desktop is video drivers. Nvidia are > the only ones doing a half decent 3D accelerated desktop and I'm stuck > with binary drivers. I was hoping that with AMD open sourcing the > drivers for ATI cards things would get better, but not luck on that > front just yet. > > Also the fact that FreeBSD has root ZFS pool support makes things rather > easy on the maintenance front.
Which is why I asked. FreeBSD seem a very serious crowd. The video driver issue is to some extent shared across all unix-like platforms, incl. OI > > Cheers > > Tim > > > Hans J Albertsson wrote on 04/06/2015 23:17: > > On this note, does anyone use FreeBSD/PC-BSD as a desktop? > > > > -- > Tim Aslat <t...@spyderweb.com.au> > Spyderweb Consulting > http://www.spyderweb.com.au > Mobile: +61 0401088479 > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss