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A couple of possible nits with *BSD, though, namely FreeBSD
(no experience with the others):

Java: currently broken (v1.3.1) and licensing prohibits binary
distribution of 1.4.x in FreeBSD, so it has to be built
from source; nice, but it takes time & space.  BSD's Linux
compatibility mode likely works around this.

Some (types of) applications aren't exactly "there" yet in
BSD, for example, MythTV.  Linux compatibility mode might work
around this as well, I dunno.  {shrug}

This is very YMMV but FreeBSD is rock-solid.

-kc

(Please pardon my top-posting.)

>Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:57:14 -0500 (EST)
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>On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Brandon Colbert wrote:
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>> I am looking for a new distro to use. I am currently a redhat/fedora/mandrake 
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