Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Dec 2005 12:57 UTC, submitted by I_dont_have_an_osnew....
"FreeBSD is an enterprise-grade operating system that leaves little to be desired. Most people have tried Linux by now, but a surprisingly large number of people have not yet taken FreeBSD for a spin. Now may well be the optimal time to take the plunge, as FreeBSD 6.0 provides the same rock-solid stability for which FreeBSD is known, and also implements some outstanding new features."
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I've used FreeBSD 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 5.2.1, 5.3, 5.4 and 6.0. I'm now using Ubuntu Breezy. I'm not sure that FreeBSD (at least with GNOME) is that reliable. It seems that the GNOME applications on FreeBSD tend to core-dump rather frequently, especially the multimedia ones. Since moving to ubuntu, I've noticed that this happens a lot less (but still happens). KDE does it too. Its a bit annoying. I suppose FreeBSD is supposed to be a server OS and these ports may not be tested to the same degree as others.
The other issues with desktop usage are :
1. ACPI suspend/resume is still not perfect on my fairly generic HP/Compaq Presario laptop - sometimes it works, and sometimes the screen scrambles up. There is no pattern to this.
2. No DRI support for i810
This is a pity as I just like the cleanness and good documentation of the underlying OS as well as the security. Sysctl is fantastic as is rc.conf in terms of administration. Whether its any faster, I don't know, but Guess I'll have to just try the next release out to see if these issues are sorted.