Re: [PLUG] PLUG West - "systemd: The Anti-BusyBox" by Rich Freeman

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

I didn't attend the meeting, but was wondering whether this would be an 
appropriate place to ask the following:

In response to the systemd controversy, an article was recently posted 
on Slashdot raising PC-BSD as an alternative to desktop linux. 
Apparently PC-BSD is FreeBSD with some additions and customizations to 
make it more friendly for a desktop user out of the box.

I currently use Linux Mint 13 and 17 (the LTS releases) with KDE on 
multiple machines.  It occurred to me that when the day comes to replace 
them, KDE on BSD might provide a very similar environment.  I think the 
catches would be:
1.  hardware support
2.  software--linux has gotten big enough that you can usually find a 
.deb to download, whether it's for some small project or a version of a 
browser that's set up to let you watch Netflix.  Popular sites often 
have a penguin on the download page, but never a little devil.

If anyone has any experience or links relevant to a comparison of recent 
versions of linux vs. BSD as a desktop OS, please send them my way.

Thanks.

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