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FreeBSD and GNOME

Submitted by Uraeus on Fri, 2006-05-12 17:08. FreeBSD

news.com has a story about FreeBSD and their effort to improve their position as a desktop operating system by improving their interoperability and support for GNOME. The effort is lead by Joe Clarke who have done a wonderful job for a long time now making sure GNOME and related technologies worked nicely under FreeBSD. They are now upping the ante with working on HAL support and more for FreeBSD. Maybe its time to take a look at installing FreeBSD again?

sure, but...

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Fri, 2006-06-02 12:12.

As a FreeBSD GNOME user for the past six months or so, I believe that though these efforts are commendable, there exists a large problem with their-fellow hacker, the FreeBSD kernel folk. The FreeBSD kernel, at least in desktop usage, is very noticeably slower than Linux or Windows ... by a lot. I used FreeBSD GNOME on a 2GHz laptop with 512MB DDR and after launching just xorg, GNOME, Evolution, and Epiphany, almost all my RAM was gone. And if I run much more than that, FreeBSD starts swapping; switching applications then results in very slow draw-times as the kernel swaps back in the memory of whatever application was in the background (even if you just used it a half minute ago.) The FreeBSD GNOME guys are doing a great job; it's the FreeBSD kernel that's going to need a lot of performance improvements under desktop conditions before these claims can be much more than a news.com filler story.

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