Technical Details

So, I’ve been doing some testing with FreeBSD and boy has it been a long time since I’ve used a pure BSD implementation, and I have to say it feels very dated. The installer definitely errs on the expert user side of things. No wonder Linux has and does mop the floor with BSD.

I never realized how much I’ve come to like and depend on the System V’isms that are present in Linux and of course Solaris since they changed their numbering scheme way back.

There’s a bunch of little things like the installer is stuck back in 1997 and not very user friendly. Where the heck is curl? I installed all the supplemental packages and no curl annoying. Bash is in /usr/local/bin, what! bash isn’t a first class shell, all very odd. It’s probably me, but I don’t see any BSD in my future. There’s more things to come I’m sure, as I’ve just scratched the surface.

The default out of the box ssh is setup only for root/wheel sure it’s secure, but you might as well disconnect the Ethernet cable if you’re that worried about your server, stuff like this would drive a novice to distraction as opposed to being really really annoying, c’mon guys get a grip.

No SVN, I installed disc2 of the “extras” packages, no SVN, huh? No curl either which seems very odd.

No unzip either, have these guys been coding under a rock somewhere, time to wake up folks.

No dos2unix, I guess DOS is just to lowbrow for the FreeBSD crowd.

Oh FreeBSD why do you torment me so,  for heaven’s sake why on earth do you link /home to /usr/home you !@&#@? FreeBSDtards!