User:BrentAngeline

Brent Angeline



Independent Web Developer

Information Technology Consultant

Operating Systems
I use BSD for servers and Linux for client devices (desktops, mobile platforms, etc.).

Server
Servers I run generally use FreeBSD (including the one for this wiki), as it provides a great balance of speed, stability, security, and compatibility. For special security needs, I'd turn to OpenBSD. For networking specialty hardware, I'd explore the options of NetBSD or an embedded Linux.

Desktop
While BSD may excel on the server end, Linux generally provides a richer multimedia experience at present, so I prefer it on the desktop and mobile devices. Since I favor KDE (K Desktop Environment) for managing my application windows in a graphical environment, I am partial to desktop distributions where KDE is well-integrated.

I'm currently using PCLinuxOS on my primary desktop. It's a well-integrated KDE distribution, blazingly fast, and everything "just worked" with a minimum of configuration. I installed it from a LiveCD, and it was very quick to get installed and configured. I've been using it for around three months now.

I'd like to try out Arch Linux next when I have more time to spend on setting up a desktop environment, as I've heard that it is very BSD-like in nature. I would also consider giving openSUSE another shot.

I've had experience working with other open source distributions as well, including Debian, DesktopBSD, Fedora, Gentoo, Kubtuntu, PC-BSD, Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and various embedded systems.