Well, I'm trying to switch from Windows XP on my laptop to FreeBSD. I'm using FreeBSD since FreeBSD 3.0 as a server but I think it's the best time to use it as a desktop too. You may ask why not Linux for a desktop? Hmm.. Every time I need to build a server I choose FreeBSD and as a desktop I have Microsoft Windows. Therefore I don't have any experiences with Linux. I'm using my laptop mainly as a developer machine.

What really speeded up the process of switching to FreeBSD is the lack of PHP function PDOStatement::nextRowset() on Windows. I'm developing projects in Zend Framework with Zend_Db component and I can't use all results from a stored procedures on MySQL.

In next few posts I'm going to write about FreeBSD as a desktop and how to run Zend Studio on FreeBSD which is not officially supported by Zend.

Thank you for reading my first post :-)