Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 24th Jul 2005 14:57 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The FreeBSD operating system is the unknown giant among free operating systems. Starting out from the 386BSD project, it is an extremely fast UNIX-like operating system mostly for the Intel chip and its clones. In many ways, FreeBSD has always been the operating system that GNU/Linux-based operating systems should have been. It runs on out-of-date Intel machines and 64-bit AMD chips, and it serves terabytes of files a day on some of the largest file servers on earth. Elsewhere, here is a guide to PC-BSD.
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> Those PBI's makes PC-BSD usefull and atractive for a
> broader audience,without sacrificing any of FreeBSD's
> strength:-)
Maybe they do, BUT:
- they have nothing to do with BSD; it's actually very easy to link Linux or Solaris apps statically against zlib, put them into an archive (deb, rpm, tar, whatever) together with a copy of libpng and jpeglib and call this an "innovation" that "resolves dependencies" (actually, every software for Microsoft Windows has been packaged like this for years)
- they are very convenient at install time just like the famous user-friendly Microsoft Windows SETUP.EXE, but they are very inconvenient and hard to maintain later because they need to be checked, patched, installed over and over again in the case of a library security leak or any other sort of bug
Therefore: Yes, these PBIs are exactly what makes PC-BSD so useful and attractive, and they are exactly what people who don't understand UNIX deserve.