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Old 12th November 2008
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- Ports: in my experience they are clumsy, ineffective and time-consuming (try to compile OpenOffice and you know what I mean).
Using OO as an example of ports is like showing the Yugo as an example of cars. Ports are an example of a good utility other OSes wish they had. If you don't want to use ports, there's packages, which works as well as any other system.
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- poor support for WebVideo and other multimedia applications (i.e. Flash et al.): Gnash & Co. are some kind of a workaround one can live with but almost any Linux-Distribution does it better (and right here right now I don't argue from an ideological point of view about blobs).
This is true but a fault of Adobe and not fbsd.
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- no speed advantages on desktops or laptops.
Compared to what? FreeBSD can run Linux apps faster than Linux can.
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Well, that sounds quite negative, but I wouldn't say that FreeBSD is a bad OS. No, it's ok, but it didn't serve my needs as good as other OS did (and do). Other people will think totaly different.
The only reason I run Linux on my laptop is so I can watch Flash videos. Other than that, I prefer fbsd.
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