Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Sep 2006 14:28 UTC, submitted by danwarne
"I love Gentoo, [but] I also hate it with a vengeance. I'm not talking small time peeves here, like the way Krispy Kremes icing gets all over your fingers (and by extension, clothes). I'm talking the type of frustration that is expressed in multitudes of expletives, some of which would make the profinsaurus cry. Why? Because, by definition and by nature, a source-based distribution is its own worst enemy."
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You can't call FreeBSD "source based": The installation is from binaries and one can use pre-built packages instead of ports. FreeBSD 6.2 will have "package based" security updates. You only need sources if you want or need FreeBSD-current and the ports.
FreeBSD supports virtualization: Jails, QEMU & kQEMU, Xen3-DomU,... (I'm not sure about VMware)