A great reputation she kept up, my God! She kept me up.

I want candy. The finest output of a million monkeys with Model M keyboards on caffeine. But I want to run it on Proper Gentleman's Dissolute Hippie Son's Unix^[*], rather than any of that shoddy Cheap Finnish Imitation.

So I'm considering moving from the present FreeBSD 4.6.2 plus random new libs, packages and the occasional symlink to FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE.

I am not running a server that will stay up four years despite daily Slashdottings. I just want a desktop. With new shiny candy. But an operating system organised on vaguely sane principles, which rules out the Finnish thing.

The FreeBSD UK mailing list considered it an entirely feasible idea. I know _nicolai_ has suffered annoying hardware incompatibilities trying to run it on his laptop. Has anyone else actually used the thing and have any experience to relate?

[*] Apologies to hirez.