RobEasy

I think DaWei is going in the direction of a general usability for products. Moreso on the end user side. Maybe asking questions like: What is the learning curve for the OS? What kind of functionality does it allow? and maybe, Is this OS good in the general terms of the end user.

If I am wrong, feel free to slap the taste out of my mouth for being insolent!

nnxion

Well I've only tried FreeBSD, so I couldn't tell you much on anything else than Windows, Suse Linux, and FreeBSD. But I'm interested in the results of your analysis/experiences, so certainly do post back when you feel like you have something to share.

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stevengs

I would love to hear an objective comparison of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I am quite familiar with FreeBSD (it ROCKS! ). As such, my opinion is biased, but I have heard many good things about OpenBSD. I have always assumed that it would be somewhat more difficult to install and configure, being bullet-proof and all, but I would gladly be taught otherwise.
If you are only going to do one BSD, I would recommend FreeBSD. The port system with the portupgrade toolkit is the cat's meow. And the FreeBSD Handbook makes it all seem so easy.

@Splinter9X"...maybe you could get lucky and publish a book"

... wie bitte?

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DaWei

I once spent a few months writing a story for a mystery magazine. I got $300 bucks for it. Here's the luck: if I hadn't been making $60 an hour consulting to a company about their engineering department, I'd have starved to death.

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splinter9x

Maybe I will publish a book.... Maybe with the title "A Day In The Life Of DaWei". What do ya think?

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DaWei

You can't even understand plain English, how can you write a book? Go ahead and use my name, though; just be sure to have an attorney standing by. I do. Thanks, though, for your non-contributions, here and throughout the forum.

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grumpy

While the BSD OSs are more usually used by professionals, none of them would be truly bad for beginners, unless you're talking about beginners who simply want all features enabled out of the box, and who are not willing to do anything that involves thinking or using any method other than GUI. But, for newbies who aren't afraid to learn a bit and think about how they configure their system, I personally consider the BSD family will be better than a lot of linux distros.

Among the BSD family, I'd argue that FreeBSD is probably the best of the three for beginners who want to get up quickly without doing lots of tweaking, as it is easier to install/configure and tends to be most compatible with a range of software. Next would be NetBSD: that's not so easy to install/configure, but not significantly more difficult than FreeBSD and it's support of hardware is wider. OpenBSD would be a good choice for a beginner if they really want to learn though: virtually all features are turned off for security reasons, which means that there is quite low risk (eg being hacked) when connecting an OpenBSD system to a network (and the user will have to work to activate most features rather than [like windows, although windows is getting better in this] working out what features to deactivate).

splinter9x

I do contribute to the forums... And it was a joke old man (just like that)... Read another post of mine *not shure witch one* but I made a apology to you and you keep dragging this on and saying *chit* as you would say...

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Harakim

lol, no offense grumpy, but I can't see any of my friends sitting down to a cup of coffee and a nice afternoon with BSD.

Toro

I heard a lot of good things from FreeBSD. It's quite reliable and robust. Another BSD verison would be DragonFly BSD. Why not give that a shot too? DragonFly BSD was created by Matt Dillon, who formerly worked on FreeBSD as a developer. DragonFly BSD is suppose to be more reliable but I haven't really heard about DragonFly BSD lately as opposed to hearing a lot about FreeBSD.

Personally, I would also like to these OSs a shot one day but for now, I am sticking with my Linux.