I’m a Windows user who has seen the evolution of of both sides, I’ll be honest about one thing I hated growing up with Linux not because it was always precieved as a better and stronger foundation than windows. I have also heard enough threads and posts comparing the security wise etc.. Suffice to say I’m not here to talk about Windows today, I never fully embraced Linux but I will say this over the years it has somewhat changed my attitude about it. I believe there is potential here however its submerged in a cloak and dagger world, one Linux distro I’m purely against is Ubuntu having used it several times I felt like it was a ship wreck its nice and lenient for the first time user but quickly evolves to boring. The problem with Linux in general is that while its pushing hard to make things easy to do for end users, allot of what its doing is abstraction of the real problems that need to be tackled and lets face it whether we like proprietary software or not there is something to be said about it and that is what it does for end users it does well because it works. Not trying to be biased but rather opening a dialogue, there is obviously potential here and I still think its some skewed.

That’s why I’m trying my luck with PC BSD today

I’ve been looking for a new OS, now that Apple has pretty well abandoned PPC and have been tossing between Linux (Yellow Dog) and FreeBSD to keep my old hardwire alive.

Based on what you’re saying, I think I’ll definitely be giving FreeBSD a go – it’s closer to OS X than Linux.

Cheers

I can’t really say anything good about the various incarnations of the ext filesystem (I really, honestly, truly think it’s crap), but I’d be shocked if it’s truly a fully asynchronous filesystem. I have found it to be much more susceptible to data corruption than UFS, but that’s subjective — I’d love to see empirical studies on it.
I will note that ext2/ext3 support file attribute flags (e.g. schg and it’s little brother uchg), though I’ve not got much experience with them on Linux.

“Device Driver support of Freebsd is better than Linux.” — Linux has a slightly broader range of supported hardware (Comparing FreeBSD 7 and recent RedHat Enterprise releases) and FreeBSD support for cool new toys can often lag behind Linux as hardware vendors will often write tools and drivers for Linux first.
FreeBSD has always done well in this regard (“Everything I need works”), but Linux is still ahead of us here. Just think of it as an opportunity for the FreeBSD Foundation to do more outreach to hardware vendors.