<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 7:33 AM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thursday October 08 2015 07:16:51 Alejandro Imass wrote:<br>
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> Perhaps it's a good time to evaluate a switch to PCBSD and ditch the Linux<br>
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</span>Why?<br>
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I've already checked the temp of those waters. I know MacPorts comes from BSD originally, but I cannot say I felt right at home at once on PC-BSD in that aspect. Maybe MacPorts has been on a divergent evolutionary path from its BSD ancestor ...<br>
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There's also the question of hardware support, and software that exists for Linux but not BSD. I like the fact PC-BSD uses ZFS (so does my Linux box :)) but I'm not convinced about its choice as an OS for a generic desktop/workstation instead for server purposes.<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hardware support I don't believe is an issue, IMHO anyway, unless you have very exotic hw. You can run PCBSD on UFS too, but I think BSD will be more compatible in general with your Mac, because OS X also derived mainly from FBSD.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It just makes sense to me that if you use Mac and MacPorts any BSD variant should be more attractive than a Linux one. Ubuntu and all it's derivatives have become extremely bloated, but I guess it all dependes on your use case. E.g. for a household user perhaps Linux is a better choice but if you are developer or more technical user perhaps PCBSD is a better alternative.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I particularly dislike the way Debian derivatives _heavily_ modify original software and I don't like their Perl Policy. I prefer the BSD-way where original software is kept very closely to the original source. At the beginning I thought dpkg was cool, but over time I prefer the ports way, where software is only minimally modified and ported. Moreover, the binary package managers in FBSD have been getting better and better over time and are compatible with ports, something that I don't know of any Linux capable of (i.e. you can interchangeably install something via ports or binary package and to they system it's the same thing).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Alejandro Imass</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>