The Stallman cult is certainly pathological in it's absolute craving for open ended software. Ideological to an extent. I just want a machine that isn't 100% spyware. I get that Stallman wants his software to be totally open, but the vast majority of people aren't looking at source code to build of off applications.
FreeBSD
Jason Rivera
Gavin Gomez
Anyone here use the software? What do you use it for?
That's what I thought. If people are going to do something, they are going to do it anyways.
Evan Barnes
Then FreeBSD will be fine for you. If you want to read the arguments against Stallman's philosophy, this is good:
freebsd.org
I use FreeBSD as a home server.
Gabriel Stewart
Sweet thanks. I first heard about OpenBSD, but FreeBSD seems like a better starting point in terms of documentation and support in terms of user support and hardware. OpenBSD sounds cool but IDK the OS yet. de Raadt is scary.
Ryan Gray
The FreeBSD handbook is absolutely top notch, really there isn't anything like it for another operating system (Maybe a Solaris guy will disagree?)
Wyatt Morales
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Jonathan Wood
Glad to here. I'm having it printed. My first foray into Linux was a nightmare because information was so disorganized, poorly delivered, or incomplete. I tried some Arch, then Ubuntu (thinking it would ease the learning curve). Even when I switched to Ubuntu I was still being referred to the Arch wiki since it's the most complete source of info anyone could point me to.
Wyatt Myers
holy shit did you make this? priceless
Colton Diaz
FreeBSD's handbook is great. So is OpenBSD's built in man pages.
I enjoy NetBSD classic unix style and use it for a few different random things but the documentation is a total clusterfuck. You have to tinker with it a lot to get things going.
Daniel Moore
It's an ancient relic.