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And then there's the people using BSD/Linux. Nobody ever talks about them.
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:37:40 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel Or possibly to them. I've certainly never met one.
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:38:22 UTC from web -
@toksyuryel Well, with good reason.
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:38:40 UTC from web -
@toksyuryel BSD/Linux? Don't you mean GNU/BSD then? AFAIK BSD is a kernel as well, isn't it?
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:38:49 UTC from Choqok-
@omni @toksyurye Well I've always wondered why FreeBSD/Linux distros don't exist/aren't more popular, FreeBSD always sounds so nice and stable and feature rich for the user and even the hardcore servermaster but the kernel isn't a 'linux' (it's not that big i'm saying ^^; )
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@jdabananasy I hear so much good things about BSD, I should really try it once. Which distribution would you recommend? FreeBSD?
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:42:29 UTC from Choqok-
@omni PC-BSD, it's FreeBSD with a binary package manager and the option of KDE(primary), GNOME(I assume latest so 3), and 'experimental' XFCE, LXDE, Awesome WM, since they only had KDE until the latest released; the issue with FreeBSD is the same Gentoo has, everything needs to be compiled, there is a binary system in FreeBSD but it's not their priority to maintain and such aparently. I've never really been able to try it easy, I think I get issues with hardware nad stuff but I'm prone to issues other people don't get *ears droop* but yea, PC-BSD for personal use, FreeBSD for home; openBSD is security programmers' playground. (another long post ^^; )
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@jdagrapesy and another text file :)
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:47:43 UTC from web -
@jdamangoesy Both KDE and awesome being available? Yay, those are my favorites! Off to try that :P
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:49:05 UTC from Choqok
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@omni BSD is a full OS, both kernel and userland. BSD systems have an entirely different collection of userland utilities than GNU systems have. Some Linux distros use this collection instead of GNU's collection, and are thus properly BSD/Linux and NOT GNU/Linux. There's plenty of hybrid systems too that use elements of both BSD and GNU (iirc Slackware uses the rc system from BSD).
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:44:32 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel I believe Arch, which I use, uses BSD-style initscripts. Well, I could always run BSD in a Virtual Machine to give a try.
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:46:55 UTC from Choqok-
@omni Gentoo's package manager, Portage, was inspired by and based on BSD's package manager, Ports.
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:48:14 UTC from web
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@omni You could create a GNU/BSD system by using a GNU userland on a BSD kernel. You will probably be yelled at by hardcore BSD users for doing this. They don't like the GNU people much, not without reason. Just to give one example, GNU's version of su is terrible.
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:46:50 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel *BSD OS use a lot of GNU tools still but they prefer stuff under the BSD license since it doesn't have any requirements, it's prettymuch the ultimate liberal license in that it only says "the ponies you got this software from aren't responsible if something goes wrong" and that's it (I think)
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Thursday, 29-Mar-12 20:51:33 UTC from Choqok
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@toksyuryel *brains explodes with sonic rainbow deep inside my head*
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