Google was host this evening to a very lively presentation to the NY Linux Users Group.  The presenter was George Neville-Neil (aka Kode Vicious) and he did a really great job illustrating the differences (and similarities) between FreeBSD and Linux.  One thing he confirmed for me is the care and consideration that FreeBSD has for its users in terms of properly setting expectations about how the operating system will differ from release to release.  They are dedicated to a low astonishment quotient (‘hey, this feature worked in the last release.. why isn’t it working now?!?!’).  Although I work on an ubuntu laptop a lot of the time, and I really love Canonical and the Ubuntu project I have to confess to being a longtime freeBSD bigot.