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My workstation OS: FreeBSD

Written by Administrator

Friday, 01 July 2005
When you have to get work done it's important to choose the right tools to enhance your productivity. If your work has something to do with a computer, the operating system is especially important. Of all of the OSes that I have used and reviewed over the years -- and I still have all of them available -- I prefer FreeBSD's "new technology release" as my main workstation operating system. Why? Because I can get more work done with it.

I originally moved to FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE shortly after it hit the download servers in June of 2003. I came from Gentoo Linux, which was giving me a lot of trouble as far as updating the system through Portage. I'd read that Gentoo was originally designed by a former FreeBSD hacker, and that Portage was a supposedly improved version of FreeBSD's Ports software management system.

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