Ubuntu first time

[Jamon Camisso]

On 1/10/2012 1:07 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> Just to be clear, I *love* Linux, for some things at least. But I
> *love* FreeBSD and other Open Source as well, not just Free Software.
> 
> Man, more and more I get to understand the saying "Linux is for people
> that hate Windows and FreeBSD is for people that love Unix". Though,
> lately it seems that Debian GNU/Linux is for people that hate anything
> else!

You can't take one or two people from this list who are strongly
opinionated about Debian and generalize to all Debian users. Most are
silent and just go about using the OS. In the right hands, almost any OS
is going to do the job.

I for one think everyone should give OpenIndiana a shot for a week and
forget about Linux and FreeBSD zealotry. You get ZFS, which when used
for backend container storage means a completely isolated container
(like Jails, or LXC) only take a few MB of disk space.

Joyent also ported KVM to OpenIndiana for those wanting full
virtualization. Quite the feat given KVM is Linux kernel specific. At
the moment it only works with Intel processors, but an AMD update is in
the works.

Seriously, boot up a VM version and give it a shot. Also, Gnome 2.x for
those who fall into that camp, but there's a KDE 4 repository available
as well.

Jamon
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