"GNU/Linux is the most popular operating system built with free/open source software. However, it is not the only one: FreeBSD is also becoming popular for its stability, robustness and security. In this article, I'll take a look at their similarities and differences."
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Member since:2006-12-23
Among all the Unix-like OS's, Linux is supposed to be the easiest to use.
http://osgeek.blogspot.com
Member since:2006-07-15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
Any relationship to this one? Its rather obvious and this advert for your wanna-be blog too.
Member since:2006-12-07
It is true that under FreeBSD "everything makes sense", but for professional user and, probably, not for ordinary consumer. PC-BSD is something else, it is quite easy to use. I have never tried SUSE 10.2 or latest Ubuntu, but they are probably, similar to PC-BSD in terms of ease of use.
Member since:2006-07-15
You should ask yourself first what is an "ordinary consumer"? Grandma? Give grandma some Ubuntu and da PC and go away, if she can install it all alone, it's suitable...
Sometime in future people will not be able at all to shutdown or power up a computer on their own. So there will be "experts" who can do that and some people will keep lamenting about it. You cannot feed the average user, because the average user doesn't want to learn something.
"Computers Are Hard
Accept it. Move on. Your life will be much simpler.
Accept that it'll take work. Accept that it'll take learning. Accept that it'll take trial and error. Accept that it'll mean just accepting things without understanding why until further down the road. Once you do that, you'll discover that learning computer technology isn't like opening an envelope and seeing what's inside; it's like watching a rose open, petal by petal... and no matter how long you watch, there's always another petal with another layer of beauty beneath it."
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/winstupid/winstupid5.php
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2006-05-19
Is FreeBSD as easy to use for newbies as GNU/Linux? Is it trying to be?
Since when Linux is "easy"? Linux got 25 different package management systems, 50+ different kernel trees- (anyone got "vanilla" kernel in production environment?), 500+ distributions- not compatible with each other, unbelievable bloated runlevels, inconsistent documentation.
After you experience working on FreeBSD for some time you'll realise that "everything makes sense" (TM) and documentation/handbook is enough for noobs/starters.