BSD Users? Re:was "Any Gentoo Users on this list?"

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:26:02AM -0500, Tyler Aviss wrote:
>Actually, one thing I'd be interested in hearing about would be if
>there are any desktop BSD users.

It has been a few years, but I used FreeBSD on a desktop and a laptop
for a year or so.  The core OS is excellent, and it is great to go to
one website for all your documentation needs.

Where FreeBSD fell down for me was rolling, in-place updates.  You could
update everything for a while, but then you started to get dependency
wedges, strange behaviour and general frustration.  Also, if you are
trying to track a fast-moving piece of software you are going to have to
take over the port.

I switched to Debian, because I can update seamlessly for years at a
time - basically the life of the hard drive - without any problems.

If you don't mind reinstalling once a year or so, and don't need today's
latest build of anything, you can be very happy with FreeBSD and some of
its friends (Dragonfly, OS X, etc.).
-- 

yours,

William

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