>>1
I also dual boot Windows XP Professional, and Ubuntu and one of my laptops! >>2
Why what does BSD offer over linux and Windows!
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Anonymous2009-07-01 19:27
>>3 what does BSD offer over linux? 1) freedom.
really, i mean it.
linux is plagued with that cancerous faggot RMS and his restrictive GPL.
2) you won't be associated with obnoxious 15 yearold faggots who think they're 1337 because they use ubanto and who take any opportunity possible to tell you how super amazing linux is and how you're a loser for using windows (i'm sure you've met these types of people before, pretty much everyone on /g/ is like this).
>>5
you don't need to care about it at all.
but if you spend much time programming you might begin to regardless.
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RMS Matthew Stallman2009-07-01 20:32
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>>8 I bet he would get of Ubuntu first, but i'll give it few weeks.
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>>10
OP here: I'm already sick of Ubuntu. It's crashed three times already, once when trying to go into hibernation and twice during shutdown. Prolly getting rid of it, but I might just keep it in a tiny partition.
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Anonymous2009-07-02 1:35
>>12
How did you manage to do that? I've been using Ubanto for almost two years now, and it crashed once.
Or X is already there? Or no, X is bloat?
if you want a desktop system in minutes, like ubuntu but easier, go with the pc-bsd distribution of freebsd.
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22009-07-02 5:53
>>16
hay, OP.
did compile it by hand (like with a pen and paper)?
that was moreso the point of my post earlier than BSD itself.
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Anonymous2009-07-02 6:33
Okay, I'll try out PC-BSD. Also, another thing; what is a good disk partitioner that I can trust? Last time I used parted, it mauled my Windows partition.
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fdisk and newfs.
just make sure you can trust yourself first, because these tools will do what you tell them to do.
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Anonymous2009-07-02 6:40
>>19
here's a simple way to do it:
1. install windows over the full hard drive.
2. shrink the windows partition from inside windows to whatever size you want.
3. install whatever else in the leftover space.
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BSD also supports wine and mono, so a lot of windows programs run on it. and it can run linux binaries. and wine is generally faster than windows, and BSD is generally faster than linux.
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Anonymous2009-07-06 15:01
So I just installed it, and xterm won't run without additional libraries, X crashed twice already, and that blasted add_pkg doesn't even show download progress by default. I'm not liking this so far.
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Anonymous2009-07-06 15:09
>>30 cd /usr/ports/whatever && make install
how is it that hard i ran freebsd for months
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FrozenVoid2009-07-07 3:53
After awhile you will start to learn the value of user-friendliness and switch back to XP.
But in another month, after you get agitated again and install Lunix-flavor-of-the-month, just to crawl back to XP
after enduring numerous quirks and bugs built-in into Lunix since practically the start(e.g. install process).
After awhile you will start to learn the value of user-friendliness and switch back to OSX.
But in another month, you'll be perfectly content and just laugh at the all the shit other people put up with from their computers.