PC-BSD ... the next Linux?

[nslay]

I really doubt it ... until, at least ZFS is done being ported to FreeBSD!

Here's the article, as featured on FreeBSD.org's "In the Media"
Enterprise Unix Roundup: PC-BSD May Be the Next Linux

[Joe]

Excuse my lack of knowledge here, but isn't most Linux software able to be run on BSD just by building it, and sometimes downloading and running a patch on the code first?

[nslay]

Excuse my lack of knowledge here, but isn't most Linux software able to be run on BSD just by building it, and sometimes downloading and running a patch on the code first?

If you build from source, most of the time yes (especially if it uses autoconf) ... sometimes no.  If an application exists in the ports tree that was originally written for Linux, ports takes care of patches when you build it.  For closed source Linux binaries, BSD has a Linux emulator ... it can run about 90% of Linux binaries.  I use Linux Opera on FreeBSD since things like Flash are also written for Linux.  You can make Flash run on native browsers via something called libmap, but its terrible ... besides, for all practical purposes, the Linux emulation in BSD performs at native speeds.

[Warrior]

I hate PC-BSD. Newby knows why lol.

[nslay]

I hate PC-BSD. Newby knows why lol.

I haven't tried it.  You should share your experience here

[Newby]

I hate PC-BSD. Newby knows why lol.

I haven't tried it.  You should share your experience here

It ate his hard-drive. Haha.

[Warrior]

Besides it using the full HD when I specifically making it target one(I tried it twice!), it ran really well. It had a lot of really good things going for it. It just left me with a sour taste in my mouth because of that.