FreeBSD 6
With a little spare time today I’ve had a look at the latest information on FreeBSD 6.
There are some great new things being introduced—WPA authentication, sound fixups, new dhclient and generally much greater stability. From what I’ve read I’m really liking how 6 is shaping up and with any luck I’ll give it a whirl when I get back to England.
I don’t yet know of the status of Beagle and other Mono-based apps, but I do know Mono is supported in the ports repository, so that’s a good start.
Maybe it’s not quite up to Ubuntu in terms of user-friendliness, but I certainly believe it has a great many other redeeming features.
Tags: BSD
July 13th, 2005 at 9:35 am
Not another FreeBSD upgrade, just after I’ve got my server running the way I want it. :(
July 13th, 2005 at 10:27 am
It’s not compulsory, you know ;)
July 13th, 2005 at 10:43 am
Aren’t the reasons that you switched to Linux that it
a) Supports your dual displays properly
b) Has better support for your laptops hardware
Or am I off the mark?
July 13th, 2005 at 11:06 am
a) Supports your dual displays properly
I’ve now got an nvidia graphics card, which is supported equally as well on both FreeBSD and Linux. The issue was with the badly-supported ATi cards.
b) Has better support for your laptops hardware
It might do… I can’t really remember. I was thinking more along the lines of using it on my desktop, though. Compiling things is a little slow on my laptop, although I could just use binary packages and suffer no loss (when compared to binary Ubuntu packages).
I think the gain was with the Hibernate support, which I’ve found I never use, and with suspend/resume… which has supposedly been addressed with 6. I don’t really use that much, but you know me… if it can work, then I want it to ;)