Thu Feb 14 14:56:24 EST 2008

returning to FreeBSD

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In  celebration  of the Lenton Season, I've decided to go back to
FreeBSD.  I've been using Ubuntu for over a year, and  it's  time
for a change.

The  reasons  are  many, but in short I just missed the wonderful
interactive environment provided for by FreeBSD.  It  is  amazing
how refreshing it is for me to be writing this entry from the new
set up.

It is hard to describe, but in retrospect my time of  Ubuntu  was
easy and virtually pain free.  What's the problem you say?  Well,
it made me complacent.  My time on the computer was no longer en-
joyable or rewarding, and I could feel myself slowly getting sick
of it.

I am not saying that FreeBSD is hard - it is certainly  not.   It
is  extremely rewarding, though, and it allows me to customize my
environment the way I want it.  It also keeps me sharp - and I've
been feeling like I've gotten dull with my skills lately.

I am currently using Fluxbox as my window manager, but I am going
to give Xmonad a try once I am able to  install  it  from  ports.
I've reported installation problems on both 6.2 and 7.0, so hope-
fully it is easily resolved and not something I am doing wrong.


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