OK now I think is see "MY" problem. I'm looking for something consistent when it comes to OS, with Linux having 100's of distributions finding that consistency (for ME) may be an issue. I need 1 place to go for solutions. That's how M$ did it, they made themselves the 1 place to go. Novell said use M$ on the desktop, Apple never got a server OS going, RH is saying the same thing now, IBM is so big they don't give a rats backside what their customers use on the desktop. Business's don't need X and M$ guys to support the business at that point. It's less expensive to use a consistent and complete OS then several. A "consistent" "complete OS" is what the home and "small" business users need and want as well. Having 100's of choices makes the decision a difficult and a protracted learning expierance. Sorting out what distribution to use when they are so similar and so different is not easy. If I have to know them all (to some extent) I need to know Free BSD as well. If I can say to someone that I use a solution (Free BSD) that doesn't have an attached question "but what about A,B,C and D" then I have a leg up. I can then start moving them from M$ to X and that is the primary "ideal" isn't it? I'm not asking to be convinced to use any specific distribution. I want to know it will be there in 6 months and not aquired by big blue or who ever. I'm the guy expierementing to see what will work, will be easy on the desktop, will be easy on the server, will be easy on the budget, and will be easy to support. If the answer to the questions is 4 or 5 distributions compaired to 1, the answer is the 1. IMHO a small business owener or home user wanting to move away from M$ will go with the 1. I'm putting on the fire proof suite and standing in Lake Superior again. Sam. PS 3D performance is not what I'm looking for but sounds good for the home user. Being a home user I may test it out if I can get it to run well. On Saturday 22 November 2003 01:34, David Phillips wrote: > Sam MacDonald writes: > > Free BSD sounds interesting, it's not Linux.... > > FreeBSD is a complete operating system. Linux is just a kernel. There is > only one FreeBSD. Saying you run "Linux" means you are running one of over > a hundred different Linux-based operating systems. > > FreeBSD has the advantage of consistency. Do a Google search for something > on FreeBSD and it will very likely be relevant to your operating system. > The same does not always hold true for Linux. Plus, since all of the core > operating system components are part of the OS, they are generally more > consistent with each other than what you get on a typical Linux distro. > > > Have you ever run Free BSD? > > The company I work for runs FreeBSD on over fifty production servers. > > > How similar is it to Linux in X windows performance? > > It should be roughly comparable to that of Linux 2.4. Video drivers are in > XFree86, not in the kernel, so they will be the same. NVIDIA now has > drivers for FreeBSD, so you should be able to get 3D performance comparable > to what you get on Linux and Windows. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list