by iXsystems | Dec 13, 2007 | DesktopBSD, PC-BSD, X vs Y
Jan Stedehouder has almost finished his DesktopBSD – the first 30 days series and the following are his observations with regards to how PC-BSD and DesktopBSD compare: Today may be a good day to at least do a formal comparison between DesktopBSD and PC-BSD. I...
by iXsystems | Nov 10, 2007 | M0n0wall, X vs Y
When it comes to firewalls, most people are fine with a consumer grade solution like a Linksys, Netgear or D-Link “router,” but these devices lack in features. With a Pentium II 200MHz processor and 1GB of RAM, you can create a firewall that’s way more powerful...
by iXsystems | Oct 13, 2007 | FreeBSD, FreeBSD vs Linux, X vs Y
Another interesting post from Penguin Pete: “The BSD Community Compared to the Linux Community”: “I’ll tell you the number one thing right off that I like better about BSD than Linux: the peace and quiet. An amazing experience occurred when I...
by iXsystems | Aug 20, 2007 | FreeBSD, PC-BSD, X vs Y
Dru Lavigne has posted a short Kubuntu vs. PC-BSD comparison on her blog I played a bit with Kubuntu this morning in preparation for the article “PC-BSD for Ubuntu Users”. It made sense to me to compare the two operating systems if they were both running...
by iXsystems | Jul 7, 2007 | DesktopBSD, PC-BSD, X vs Y
Fareast has written a quick comparison of DesktopBSD and PC-BSD on Dailykos.com: After reading a very not-nice review of DesktopBSD a couple of weeks ago, and in light of the fact that I just adore PC-BSD, it’s a bit strange that I would be reviewing it here....
by iXsystems | May 21, 2007 | FreeBSD, FreeBSD vs Linux, PC-BSD, X vs Y
Browsing some forum I came accross the following quote which I want to share with you. I don’t want to start a Linux-BSD flame war, but to me, being a BSD fan, I think there’s some truth it (slightly edited): BSD rules because it’s time-tested and...