On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Sam Clemens
The fractured and shattered BSD community has everything but destroyed, through pride and arrogance, what was Bill Joy's baby and what USED TO BE (past tense!) the premier *nix platform :-(
There was a time when BSD was not only relevant, but *the* platform where all of the important development was happening. Now we have three camps, each headed up by a glory-hound, and each of whom refuses to even *work* with anyone....which is why BSD is all but irrelevent now.
Being late to the BSD party, I've only used NetBSD some many years ago, and FreeBSD today (mostly for grins in a Vmware machine). Other than those problems caused by Vmware, (vmware drivers for dynamic resizing of desktop in the virtual machine) I found FreeBSD 7 (x86_64) with KDE to be the best out of the box installation for browsing windows networks (and samba) of any nix I've tried. Its utterly fast, faster than windows itself, and and faster and way more reliable than OpenSuse 10.3 at this task. Not that this is a major point, but it is interesting that this works so well and Kubuntu and Opensuse have problems in this regard. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org