The biggest thing with FreeBSD is the overarching design of the system is based on "the principle of least astonishment." When you do something, the system should respond in a way that generally avoids you saying "what the #$%#$!". That means that when you do an upgrade the names of the network ports don't suddenly change and you have to do digging through random wikis to find out that you've been changed from network manager to network tools or some nonsense and now "eth0" is "en3p2". I cannot tell you
The biggest thing with FreeBSD is the overarching design of the system is based on "the principle of least astonishment." When you do something, the system should respond in a way that generally avoids you saying "what the #$%#$!". That means that when you do an upgrade the names of the network ports don't suddenly change and you have to do digging through random wikis to find out that you've been changed from network manager to network tools or some nonsense and now "eth0" is "en3p2".
Like when Ubuntu decided the NT1 protocol should be disabled by default in Samba, despite it still being widely used. That really screwed up my home file server.
My favorite was when the maintainer of FVWM on Debian decided, in an incremental, standard, update, that the *only* reasonable way to handle windows was the stack of one at a time--and therefore overwrote the users.fvwmrc file without asking or keeping a backup . . .
Good reasons to switch? (Score:2)
I run Mint at home and it does what I need, but I'm curious what advantages there might be to switching to FreeBSD.
What might be some compelling reasons why someone would use or switch to FreeBSD from another Linux distro? Security, performance, stability...?
Re: (Score:4, Interesting)
The biggest thing with FreeBSD is the overarching design of the system is based on "the principle of least astonishment." When you do something, the system should respond in a way that generally avoids you saying "what the #$%#$!". That means that when you do an upgrade the names of the network ports don't suddenly change and you have to do digging through random wikis to find out that you've been changed from network manager to network tools or some nonsense and now "eth0" is "en3p2". I cannot tell you
Re: (Score:2)
The biggest thing with FreeBSD is the overarching design of the system is based on "the principle of least astonishment." When you do something, the system should respond in a way that generally avoids you saying "what the #$%#$!". That means that when you do an upgrade the names of the network ports don't suddenly change and you have to do digging through random wikis to find out that you've been changed from network manager to network tools or some nonsense and now "eth0" is "en3p2".
Like when Ubuntu decided the NT1 protocol should be disabled by default in Samba, despite it still being widely used. That really screwed up my home file server.
Re:Good reasons to switch? (Score:2)
My favorite was when the maintainer of FVWM on Debian decided, in an incremental, standard, update, that the *only* reasonable way to handle windows was the stack of one at a time--and therefore overwrote the users .fvwmrc file without asking or keeping a backup . . .
[eyeroll]