[ale] FreeBSD is Demonic

[Leam Hall]

On 01/13/2012 09:31 AM, mike at trausch.us wrote:
>> If I were doing a desktop, though, definitely Linux. Any of the BSD
>> versions seems to be a few years behind.
>
> I don't know about that; they are more advanced in different ways, and
> it's not the kernel's problem, really, or the fault of the userland.
> Some software just doesn't support FreeBSD (or NetBSD, or OpenBSD) as
> well as it does Linux.  All that would need to happen for that to change
> is for an interested party to contribute to the project and enhance
> portability to the BSD family, I'm sure.
>
> Also, I have sometimes seen the Ports trees get out-of-date on the BSD
> systems.  I have a tendency to download tarballs and compile from source
> myself when I am working on the BSD systems.

My meaning was that the desktop portions are seriously behind Linux. As 
far as server stuff I think NetBSD is pretty equal though I can't say 
I've done a real performance comparison.

Leam