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FreeBSD Vows to Compete with Desktop Linux

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th May 2006 20:31 UTC, submitted by Joel Dahl

Linux may soon have a stronger open-source competitor on the desktop if FreeBSD's plans come to fruition. FreeBSD developer Scott Long told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the operating system, descended from the Unix derivative BSD, is "quickly approaching" feature parity with Linux. "Lots of work is going on to make FreeBSD more friendly on the desktop," Long said. "Within the year, we expect to have, or be near, parity with Linux."

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Interesting

by Leoandru on Sat 13th May 2006 00:26 UTC

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2006-01-15

This is very interesting, I'd really like to see how this turns out.. BTW FreeBSD isn't hard to use and if your telling me you don't want to read documentation your just being lazy.

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RE: Interesting

by smitty on Sat 13th May 2006 02:11 in reply to "Interesting"

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2005-10-13

If you require users to read documentation you'll never be a competitve desktop system. It is lazy, but that is the way most people are. For a server, though, that's probably a plus since it means you have to have some kind of clue about what is going on.

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