bsd licensing and windows

[reaper]

i've used freebsd,openbsd and a few linux distributions.  I think ubuntu makes things the easiest, but the packages are not as maintaned, and integrated into the operating system as with bsd.  but I just want to get things done, and I don't care about watching things compile, or dealing with any issues.

I've found that the best tradeoff was using Ubuntu,  if I have to install 7 applications, and it's just seven apt-get commands, to me that beats spending days compiling software, for a technical benefit no user or myself will ever or rarely notice.

sometimes I will grab the source to use the newest version, depending on the software, but I like and need to be efficient, so intalling the packages with ubuntu is nice, and always seemed to have the right software, and generally less hassles than bsd.

[zndkw1n]

Have you tried Hardy heron yet?  It's very cool.  Makes me wonder why i still have that piece of shit m$ winblow$

[reaper]

yeah I tried Hardy Heron.  but I usually don't like to upgrade things, because updating has broken my system more than once.

[zndkw1n]

mine too, but im going ubuntu full time then 8.10 is released.