> But everytime I try to install kfreebsd or the like, I
> hit the mundane realities of hardware support and the like. It feels like
> Linux circa 1998.

Well, I am running FreeBSD servers since 1999 - and only remember one problem with server hardware (a new revision of a Broadcom card on a Dell server a few years ago).

The problem was fixed after a few e-mails with the maintainer of the driver. Took probably two or three weeks.

>  What do you mean I can only have 1024x768 on my
> 1920x1200 laptop and it takes a minute to draw an xterm?

Well, I do not run laptops often with FreeBSD but the PC-BSD 10 laptop on a Samsung netbook works as expected. Yes, I needed xrand under Fluxbox but that's the same now when I Debian and Fluxbox on another machine.

But I am really not an "experienced desktop user" - I always buy $500 hardware for glorified terminal multiplexers.

Anyway, I think that's were the problem starts: with the comparison of FreeBSD and Linux on territory which is most unfavorable for it.

You may appreciate a real 4WD a bit better when you leave the road for once. Until then it's probably just an ugly bulky car.

These days the Poetterings want me to use their Porsche for everything..

Regards
Peter



On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Tim Connors <tim.w.connors@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Peter Ross wrote:

> Written by Rick Moen
>
> > (Your point is of course well taken about the wrongheadedness of
> > systemd-journald binary logfiles, which tells you all you need to know
> > about the wisdom of entrusting system architecture to these particular
> > coders.)
>
> The problem seems that commercial (or more sinister?) interests at work so
> it is possible that such things are happening.
>
> All major Linux distributions have systemd now at its core, and I do not
> see any hope that it becomes easier to run Linux without it.
>
> The smartphone segment is more or less monopolised by Google-controlled
> Androids.
>
> So it's not much different than, lets say, OpenSolaris, which was
> practically controlled by Sun, and with Oracle taking over, game over. Yes,
> it's not exactly dead but it's a fringe community which works on "the
> leftovers".
>
> Systemd is too much of a disruptive beast to be tolerated in an open-minded
> Open Source community. It is more or less a hostile init ABI without
> certainty of reasonable stability for the surrounding environment.
>
> For me, it leaves FreeBSD as the "largest company independent open source
> operating system" (well, maybe not very good wording but you may get what I
> mean).
>
> I know there are things out there "just for Linux". But for many many
> things you can use FreeBSD and it works as well, or often better, than
> Linux does.

I've been shat off with Linux's virtual memory management since at least
2001.  A whole bunch of things have started shitting me off more in the
past few years.  But everytime I try to install kfreebsd or the like, I
hit the mundane realities of hardware support and the like.  It feels like
Linux circa 1998.  What do you mean I can only have 1024x768 on my
1920x1200 laptop and it takes a minute to draw an xterm?

Blah, time to take up motorcycle mechanic courses.

--
Tim Connors