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I voted Linux and i like Slackware distro...

gentoo has part of both, then both are good to me , gentoo rocks

mankeke wrote:gentoo has part of both, then both are good to me , gentoo rocks

yes thats right but i didnt vote for anything because i didnt try bsd yet

Just a bit of question for those who have used BSD: how's the wireless driver support front going? any better than linux?

dama wrote:Just a bit of question for those who have used BSD: how's the wireless driver support front going? any better than linux?

Actually the wireless front may be better in the *BSD's. Here is a quick quote:

"It looks like some kernel developers have noticed that the OpenBSD project is including reverse-engineered drivers for wireless ethernet cards while Linux is still using binary blobs. A large part of the issue is that much OpenBSD development takes place abroad, where having to do clean-room reverse-engineering isn't as important."

OpenBSD Ahead of Linux for Wi-Fi Drivers
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/0 ... 7238.shtml

FreeBSD 6.0 to target wireless devices
http://news.com.com/FreeBSD+6.0+to+targ ... 39526.html

Hope this helps.
Regards,
Pete

Some interesting benchmarks between Linux & BSD (but outdated...)

http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/

Wireless in BSD? As far as I've seen, weird. It works on my friend's laptop, but on mine it seems to be buggy. I've got FreeBSD 4.7, maybe there's a fix in 5.0. I'm using an old Cisco Aironet 340 PCI card, which is supported, and ifconfig tells me that it associates itself with a network... it just... doesn't... work. It's odd. Either way, though, I voted BSD, because it's more easily customizable than some more complicated Linux distros, and because I think the word Unix rolls of the tongue smoother than Linux. Linux sounds harsher.

FreeBSD is security oriented and generally more reliable in my opinion. However, Linux is more mainstream. Both have comparable user-base and applications availablity, but I found that the BSD ports are way ahead of Linux in maturity. But it does say something that NetBSD will run on anything, and OpenBSD has had only 1 security hole in how many years...? Plus MacOSX's Darwin is a port of FreeBSD... So it really is a comfort zone choice I guess.

The BSD mascot rules. I really don't care much for the penguin, penguins tend to waddle and hang out in the cold.... BSD is hot on the other hand! Go Daemon!