Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by trasz on Sunday August 07, 2022 @06:27AM
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>Firefox doesn’t even seem to have a FreeBSD version or instructions.
Erm, what? It's not Windows, that's what packages are for. Just "pkg install firefox".
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by ornornor on Sunday August 07, 2022 @07:28AM
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I just checked the Firefox download page which doesn’t have any FreeBSD specific instructions (although it does for linux)
Glad to hear Firefox has up to date packages in FreeBSD though!
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by nix23 on Sunday August 07, 2022 @07:40AM
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> I just checked the Firefox download page which doesn’t have any FreeBSD specific instructions (although it does for linux)
It's a Browser, you don't need "specific" instructions for the base-os.
Most software that run on Linux may or may not run on FreeBSD. And when it doesn’t, it’s typically hard or impossible to get instructions or community support.
Looking at the download page, Firefox doesn’t even seem to have a FreeBSD version or instructions.
I can understand for servers although you lose community support for most software and can’t use ready to deploy docker images, as much as I loathe docker.
FreeBSD is vastly superior to Linux IMHO (the handbook is a great read), but it’s unfortunately not practical for most usages.