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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However, I suspect that the BSD folks will then have a hell of a lot of tuning to do; Linux folks have been tweaking to improve desktop performance for some time, while the BSD world has been totally server-focused with few exceptions.
It's funny though that people report PC-BSD feeling snappier than regular Linux+KDE.