Sunday, May 09, 2010

On FreeBSD

I mentioned I would take a look on FreeBSD, indeed I did. However my journey was not a smooth one. In fact, the installation process was hung in the middle at the screen prompting for language. I tried both the amd64 and generic i386 images, all to no avail. I guess I will wait for awhile for the next FreeBSD...

2 comments:

rtalcott said...

I too wanted to try bsd...currently running Ubuntu on 6 machines...however..I cannot get bsd to install...I've tried 3 machines...same story...it hangs during install. the hardware is NOT bleeding edge stuff but relatively inexpensive boards with AMD cpu's...I may soon be involved with a couple high tech manufacturing start-ups and was thinking about bsd for infrastructure.

rt

Cuppa Chai said...

Yeap, my machine is also a mid-range AMD CPU. Guess the developers have not really tested the distro on AMD boxes. BSD sounds a good choice for servers. Even though there are a lot of hypes on Linux, and Linux does improve over time, but to me, Linux's upgrade process is very piece-wise and prone to error. If I were to set up infra, I would choose OpenBSD for servers that need better security, and FreeBSD for the rest. OpenSolaris should have been a strong contender, but pity Sun....