Am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2004 10:22 schrieb Michael Mueller:
> To make it short: I love it :-)
>
> I'm not using it as a server but as a workstation both at home and @work.
> I was always quite satisfied with woody on both my boxes but was since I'm
> not willing to use the old software woody provides (e. g. kde 2.2) I was
> using lots of backports.
> First I switched at home and after using it at home for about half a year,
> I switched at work too last week :-)
>
> The imho coolest thing of FreeBSD ist the strict separation between base
> system and Ports. I'm using 4.10 stable - let's say that's somehow like
> using Debian woody - but I can always install the lates software like kde
> 3.2.3, ruby 1.8.1 etc....
> One thing to consider is, that if you want new versions, you nearly always
> have to compile them by yourself... in the case of ruby no big deal, but
> when you want to compile kde or openoffice you can easily keep your box
> occupied the whole night or more...
> I'm using it on a celeron 1100 and it's ok to do such things at night....
> but it wouldn't dare to compile big programs on let's say an P2-300...
>
> However FreeBSD when compared to linux lacks supports for some new
> hardware.. AFAIK there is no USB 2.0-support in the 4.X STABLE Line... But
> since I don't have any fancy Multimedia-equipment I don't care..
>

sounds great,
what i wonder about is the linux binary compatibility. Do You know, what it 
exactly means? Can i simply run binaries compiled for linux, or can i even 
compile for linux on a FreeBSD machine? Is it possible to install rpm or deb 
packages? 

regards 
ralf


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