I’m a diehard OS X user, but keep around a desktop for nightly jobs and file storage. I’m rather unlucky with disk drives (killed one just yesterday), so I’ve been meaning to move to ZFS. FUSE on Linux doesn’t feel too trustworthy right now (right, I'll trust drivers not in the mainline kernel), and having finally gotten used to BSDisms, I’m not sure starting fresh with Solaris is the right path.
Long story short, I decided to try FreeBSD 7.0 (ZFS built in!). The last time I used FreeBSD was to shape traffic in a network testbed. This time, I’m looking for dead-simple usability. I want my WinPrinter to work plug and play, X to start outta the box in high res, and all that jazz.
First step, downloading the cd images and making a dvd image from that.
More later…