Re:NomadBSD
by arminiusreturns on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:43PM
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Yes FreeBSD tends to be the better desktop BSD due to many devs/users using it as a daily driver and fixing many of the pain points... of course I haven't used FreeBSD as my daily driver since ~2003 so I could be operating off totally stale information. I do have to say sometimes I get pangs of missing the much more unified tooling in BSD land, but GNU is my home now (sometimes exceptions are made in the case of pfsense, freenas, etc).
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There was a point in time... and 2003 was probably about it, where FreeBSD on the desktop was just a dream... this would have been like 4.7 or thereabouts...
* Working NVidia driver * Working OSS sound with mixing/multi access (Like modern ALSA, except, ya know, not blowing chunks) * WOrking Java * Nice fonts
I think even FlashPlayer worked.
And there was linux binary compat so you could run whatever.
Re:NomadBSD
by arminiusreturns on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:24AM
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Yep 4.5 ish to about 4.9 were very nice and about the range when it was my main system.