Am Dienstag, 24. Februar 2015 schrieb Robert Storey:
> Although I'm very hopeful that Devuan will be my future distro of choice,
> we're still not there yet. I thought it might be prudent for me to survey
> the other possibilities that do not depend on systemd. So yesterday, I
> decided to give FreeBSD (actually, PC-BSD) a trial run.
>
> I'm sorry to say that it was disappointing. In fact, pretty much a failure.
> I installed it on both my desktop and laptop. In both cases, the only video
> driver I was able to run was VESA. That basically kills it for doing any
> kind of multimedia, other than listening to music.
>
> The other big disappointment was with power management. It doesn't seem
> that FreeBSD does cpu frequency scaling, though perhaps it does and I just
> don't know how to enable it. Anyway, my cpu was running flat out, and on
> the laptop this meant the fan ran constantly at top speed. I could have
> fried an egg on the keyboard.
>
> So, I'm reluctantly going to scratch FreeBSD from my list.
>
> I do have Slackware installed on both machines. It's multimedia performance
> is fine, and power management is a non-issue. However, it's missing many
> useful apps which Debian and Ubuntu have. It also lacks one of the drivers
> I would need for my current desktop USB wireless adaptor, though possibly
> that could be compiled in (or the adaptor replaced).
>
> Thus, my great hope for the future remains Devuan.
>
> cheers,
> Robert
>

When you go for FreeBSD, then you'll must read the handbook. I have all my servers and laptops moved over to FreeBSD and I am very pleased: power consumtion is lower than wheezy, configurability is at least equal. But without reading the docs you are scrued.

Nik

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