Thursday, June 01, 2006

FreeBSD

I Decided to give FreeBSD a real try, so I removed the windows harddrive from my laptop computer (I now use that as backup drive) an put in a brand new harddisk (it was a gift from friends) and installed FreeBSD 6.0 First week it was compiling a lot of programs (usefull a broadband internet connection in the office) not that it was compiling 24/24h but here's a summary of what I compiled Bash,Emacs,Eclipse,mc,Apache22,php5+extensions,Mysql,KDE 3.5.2, windowmaker, etc... the one that took most was KDE 3.5.2 off course.

But I can say that it's running very smoothly ;)

Now that FreeBSD as even Java due to an agreement with Sun I has gained a lot of points for me since I do a lot of java programming. Even that I could have used gcj for java but that one has still some missing graphical support.