On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > If somebody has used any of the BSD systems (FreeBSD or NetBSD), I'd have > just liked to know the experience with them, any significant advantages or > pain areas felt etc.
I have used FreeBSD in the past. Beware of the differences between the GNU and BSD tools. The Debian project now has a FreeBSD distro [1]. I have not tried it though so no personal experience. > I am a largely command line user, never use any feature rich desktop > manager. I use a regular x86 desktop computer / laptop. For such a usage > profile and hardware, which flavor of BSD will be good to use? Linux penetration is more thus driver availability might be an issue for desktop type hardware. Check respective HCL [1] <http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/> HTH -- Arun Khan A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List