Sleep Is For The Weak

I mentioned earlier that the company I work for is firmly rooted in Open Source software.  Almost all of our servers are running FreeBSD with a couple, read three, CentOS Linux servers for Xen thrown in.  All of the sites we develop use exclusively  Open Source software as well, nginx, varnish, pound and zope for example.  The exception to our commitment to Open Source is on our desktop.  We all have Mac Notebooks, running OS X.  While parts of OS X are Open Source, the vast majority of the OS is not.

Our lead developer mentioned an interest in moving onto something else due to some performance problems in OS X.  Today he explained he had downloaded PC-BSD to run as a Virtual Machine.  I’ve been using PC-BSD on and off since version 1.2 was in beta and really like it.  The recent move to KDE4 is a bit of a turn off for me, but it can obviously be worked around.  So, as I’m writing this I am actively backing up my Mac in preparation of installing PC-BSD on a 30 GB partition.  I’ll be sure to report back after I play with it on the Mac hardware for a week or so, and will do my due diligence and report any bugs I encounter to the PC-BSD bug trackers.

Thanks for reading, and be sure to pop back for a review of PC-BSD on my Mac Book Pro.

Thanks to: relax7d(2) for the image.