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> Nothing like Dropbox -- that's not a bug, it's a feature. What a horribly arrogant and conceited thing to say.
It's also wrong. FreeBSD supports the best there is: Tarsnap.
The article makes some good points, and I'm glad it didn't just rail on one single part/component since linux distrobutions have so much variety. ZFS is really a killer FS, and unfortunately Linux just doesn't have a native answer just yet (although BtrFS does have some promising parts). There's a lot of people either threatening to switch or are switching to one of the BSD's as a result of being dissatisfied with th…
He seems to think in his comparison Debian comes on top. However, the points which he thinks are where Debian is stronger illustrate precisely where Linux has lost its way. Laptop support is lacking -- assuming you care about laptops, and care about suspend working out of the box. Guess what, suspend didn't work out of the box under Debian, either. Storage, he's forgetting that zfs is both a filesystem, and a volume…
> Nothing like Dropbox -- that's not a bug, it's a feature. What a horribly arrogant and conceited thing to say.
That's definitely a feature, not a bug! I hate how Linux distributions require you to install a thousand "-dev" or "-devel" packages. All headers should always be present on a Unix system!
Also, you don't need HAL/PolicyKit/dbus on FreeBSD. xorg-server recently switched the default configuration option from HAL to devd. And you can compile things like Firefox WITHOUT="DBUS" :-)
He seems to think in his comparison Debian comes on top. However, the points which he thinks are where Debian is stronger illustrate precisely where Linux has lost its way. Laptop support is lacking -- assuming you care about laptops, and care about suspend working out of the box. Guess what, suspend didn't work out of the box under Debian, either. Storage, he's forgetting that zfs is both a filesystem, and a volume…
I dunno about that, but there's always OwnCloud which runs anywhere you can get PHP running (yeah, 2 minute hate on PHP, who cares it works.) and has clients for iOS, Android & everything else you can think of
"There are some other issues, too: FreeBSD ports make no distinction between development and runtime files like Debian’s packages do. So, just by virtue of wanting to run a graphical desktop, you get all of the static libraries, include files, build scripts, etc for XOrg installed." That's definitely a feature, not a bug! I hate how Linux distributions require you to install a thousand " -dev" or " -devel" packages.…
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> Nothing like Dropbox -- that's not a bug, it's a feature. What a horribly arrogant and conceited thing to say.
Not only that, but it also misses the point in the original context. Missing an inotify equivalent can be a handicap for a number of different applications. Whether kqueue is an acceptable alternative sounds like it's worthy of a separate discussion.