Why PC-BSD<\/a>? Among GhostBSD<\/a> it‘ s simply another „out-of-the-box“ BSD. I have no problems to admit that I’m newbie in BSD world. Complete rookie. I tried OpenBSD, FreeBSD<\/a>, GhostBSD, DragonflyBSD<\/a>, NetBSD<\/a>. Blinking cursor is nothing I’m looking for, I wouldn’t use HAMMER<\/a> file system at all with my modest needs. Ok, so deciding between GhostBSD and PC-BSD was won by huge repositories and overall better controlling.<\/p>\n File systems<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n One of the main requirement for operating system is extra_quality_file_system. I was using XFS<\/a> for ages. Fast, stable, reliable.<\/p>\n Many years I was envying file system of Solaris. ZFS<\/a> was simply king. So many features, including encryption, dynamic striping, deduplication and more were like a dream. Few years ago I realized that BSDs are commonly<\/a> using ZFS. From that moment it was just a question of time. There are dozens of great sources about ZFS, I can recommend at least one perfect presentation there<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pros<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n * All my hardware inside laptop was detected properly (including Intel + nVidia graphics card = Optimus), external sound card.<\/p>\n * GUI (Mate in my case) is working extremely quickly, smoothly, no errors.<\/p>\n * AppCafe looks great, one click solution, including application jailing! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n * VirtualBox working out of box (I have never such luck even with linux distributions!!!)<\/p>\n * SMPlayer playback is smooth, using all intel acceleration it can get.<\/p>\n * Connecting NTFS disk is no problem.<\/p>\n * Incredible CPU utilization (never seen this before in linux world)<\/p>\n Cons<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n * Flash plugin looks like installed (in default) and definitely is not<\/strong> working out-of-the-box – at least for playing YouTube videos (crashing very fast)<\/p>\n * Update Manager looks annoying and is really slow<\/p>\n * As I’m still rookie, CPU on 100% in few moments makes me confused<\/p>\n * System boot time is incredibly long. Nevermind – that’s really nothing.<\/p>\n * Second update completely buried my Windows partition in GRUB configuration \ud83d\ude00 How rude! Fixed by adding few lines in Boot Manager:<\/p>\n * Embedded video in Facebook is not playing sound (thx Futik)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ugly GUI?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I don’t think so \ud83d\ude09 Classical MATE. You can install in basic image almost 10 window managers.<\/p>\n As my IT world is strictly based on virtualization (database servers), I’m completely satisfied. I can handle music, movies, reading pdf\/anything what Ocular can handle, I can indeed browse comfortly (Firefox 33.1), IMing – Pidgin (almighty!), using ftp, torrents, etc…<\/p>\n To be continued.<\/p>\n -a-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Getting rid of kernel fixing (dividing by zero), kernel versions, unbelievable bugs on every step, poor disk setting (file system), poor security (shell shock, remember?)? Ok, I tell you something. I switched from linux(thx for 15 great years anyway!) to … Continue reading ![\"bootup\"](\"http:\/\/it.tuxie.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bootup-300x196.png\")
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