I stayed with MX!

[mohsenmgr]

I have been using MX for the past year and hands down it is my favorite os. it took me quite a time to make my system stable and the way i want it to work but once i have done it i can not think of any other os which is this close and personal to my heart. Enjoy GHostBSD.
I will try to convert every one i know to MX Linux. I had Mint, Ubuntu, Sparky, Variations of Fedora, ... but MX works out of the box on my 2012 DELL laptop.

[rokytnji.1]

Good Luck.

[Adrian]

From the user perspective the license doesn't make a difference, neither type of licenses restricts you in the use of the OS and its tools.

From a developer perspective there are difference in how you expect people who use your code to behave, but unless you go to a level of "I won't shake hands with people who eat animals" type of activism/principles it doesn't matter much, set the license you want for the tools you write and so be it. Warren (original developer of MEPIS from which antiX and MX sprung) actually disliked GPL and especially GPL trolls who were bugging him so he used Apache license for the installer, so the MX installer still uses that license, most of all the mx-* tools (the one I worked on) use GPL, again, as a user you'd not see the difference.

As a user, I choose things that work better, with the license that allows me to use them how I wish, I find GPL perfectly adequate for that, I don't need to release closed source programs (which I guess is the only "freedom" GPL takes away).

But to use the vegetarian or vegan analogy, eat whatever sits better with your stomach and principles, it gets a bit tiresome when people preach to other people what to eat.

[turtlebay777]

From the user perspective the license doesn't make a difference, neither type of licenses restricts you in the use of the OS and its tools.

From a developer perspective there are difference in how you expect people who use your code to behave, but unless you go to a level of "I won't shake hands with people who eat animals" type of activism/principles it doesn't matter much, set the license you want for the tools you write and so be it. Warren (original developer of MEPIS from which antiX and MX sprung) actually disliked GPL and especially GPL trolls who were bugging him so he used Apache license for the installer, so the MX installer still uses that license, most of all the mx-* tools (the one I worked on) use GPL, again, as a user you'd not see the difference.

As a user, I choose things that work better, with the license that allows me to use them how I wish, I find GPL perfectly adequate for that, I don't need to release closed source programs (which I guess is the only "freedom" GPL takes away).

But to use the vegetarian or vegan analogy, eat whatever sits better with your stomach and principles, it gets a bit tiresome when people preach to other people what to eat.

Surely it's only dogs who can be trained to 'sit' ( I know it didn't work with the wife!).
Though apparently even in dog eating parts of the world there is a vegan alternative called 'Not Poodle' !

[hunghung]

Oh, we hardly knew thee, goodbye!

I'm just a random guy

[hunghung]

Now I prefer the permissive MIT and BSD licenses than the restrictive GPL.

The only people restricted by the GPL are those who want to hide any changes they make in the code. The MIT & BSD licences permit private companies and individuals to steal the code and never feed back their improvements to everybody else.

Anyway, have fun with GhostBSD :-)

And that's the part I liked about it. Imagine I'm a small software development company, e.g: I'm selling Image Manipulation software, and I'm using a library to process raw image. Would you prefer this library to be GPL or BSD? Do you want to open source everything because it's derived work from this library? Don't said about how your competitors could benefit from this. Imagine the Redhat situation, a random guy take your code and rebranded it with another name and turn back to compete with you? Or he would provide it free. And your product cost money. What would the customer choose? Do you really want this? Don't said with me you will sell support like Redhat does, it's utterly nonsense for this kind of software.

I would donate money back to library developer and consider contributing back the part I don't think could harm my business but I will never open source my software. The money is on his hand, he could use it to buy more beers or further develop his library, it's up to him. I'm not a robber, I give money back to him, despite this money can't be comparable to the benefits I got from his work or the actually prize of the library is. If you said it's not fair, I have to donate to him not that little money but the actual prize of the library itself, well, I will tell you, I would rather buy a proprietary library provide similar functionality, most of the time the quality of the proprietary one is much higher than the free one.

You said with the perspective of the customer. I also think for the developers. My dream is someday I could open a small software development company, selling scientific and engineering software. I know my dream will never come true. But I still prefer BSD license over the GPL.

[hunghung]

...GhostBSD is more like MX, just work out of the box ...

End of October i read an article, "GhostBSD 19.10 released".
Thought that sounds very good, and is worth a try.

My limited bandwith and nearly a 2gb iso (surprised and wondering!) to download, hmh...
but, your words motivate me to watch a free hotspot.

MX will always stay here, because I persuaded a large part of my family and friends to do it.
The support is up to me...

There's FuryBSD too. Trident's move to Void Linux isn't a big loss for the BSD as a new one come in quickly

[hunghung]

From the user perspective the license doesn't make a difference, neither type of licenses restricts you in the use of the OS and its tools.

From a developer perspective there are difference in how you expect people who use your code to behave, but unless you go to a level of "I won't shake hands with people who eat animals" type of activism/principles it doesn't matter much, set the license you want for the tools you write and so be it. Warren (original developer of MEPIS from which antiX and MX sprung) actually disliked GPL and especially GPL trolls who were bugging him so he used Apache license for the installer, so the MX installer still uses that license, most of all the mx-* tools (the one I worked on) use GPL, again, as a user you'd not see the difference.

As a user, I choose things that work better, with the license that allows me to use them how I wish, I find GPL perfectly adequate for that, I don't need to release closed source programs (which I guess is the only "freedom" GPL takes away).

But to use the vegetarian or vegan analogy, eat whatever sits better with your stomach and principles, it gets a bit tiresome when people preach to other people what to eat.

Surely it's only dogs who can be trained to 'sit' ( I know it didn't work with the wife!).
Though apparently even in dog eating parts of the world there is a vegan alternative called 'Not Poodle' !

So you implied I'm dog?

[hunghung]

Bye, Hunghung. Next time you eat phô think of me. (I miss it!) Have a great journey with your new OS.

(By the way you're still welcome to come back to the MX forum just to visit.)

It's called phở, not phô. I like it too

[Lupin]

Good luck with it!

everyone has a different definition of a-perfect-os in mind and is free to choose what he/she thinks is the best according to his/her needs. no one's forced to use something particular.
I was a manjaro user before knowing MX ,i still like it and is a great os,but i couldn't go on with the 'bleeding edge' nature of arch anymore, just a personal preference.
I personally had a very pleasing experience with MX since ver18.3 and so i'm still a newbie. but there's something rather 'magical' about MX that prevents me to think about any other os right now and I didn't experience some difficulties which i had in other distros.

anyway, i hope you get the best experience with GhostBSD and enjoy it!