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[hellknight_mnd]

Hey,

I've been using FreeBSD since last couple of days. It really, is a mind blowing operating system. I'm posting my hardware details here :-

AMD Athlon II X4 640
Biostar TA 790 GX BE - everything detected
Palit GTX 260 Sonic - working out-of-box, installed NVIDIA driver and got compiz working,
Sound - had to add snd_hda_enable="YES" to /boot/loader.conf to get it working.
AOC F22 Monitor - Full resolution detected.

We can post our experiences here with the FreeBSD OS. I'm using 64-bit FreeBSD 8.2 right now..

 

[dhruvrock2000]

^^ you mean 64 bit , right ?

 

[hellknight_mnd]

Yeah .. typo..

 

[ronnie_gogs]

Whats good about it ? Would you mind sharing what makes it mindblowing about it...

 

[hellknight_mnd]

First of all, I'm running GNOME along with Opera which has around 10 tabs open, still, it is eating only 300 Megs of RAM. Moreover, if you guys are familiar with the Grand Central Dispatch tech which is in Snow Leopard, is included in the release. This code, moves the threads to the unused CPU cores which makes processing much, much faster. Compilation of software on FreeBSD feels much faster than my Arch Linux installation.