Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:58:59 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > Gour wrote: >> I'm very seriously considering to put PC-BSD on my desktop and of >> several others in order to reduce my admin-time required to maint. all >> those machines. > > OSX is the only OS (besides DOS) I've had that had painless upgrades. > Windows upgrades never ever work in place (at least not for me). You > have to wipe the disk, install from scratch, then reinstall all your > apps and reconfigure them. > > You're hosed if you lose an install disk or the serial # for it. > > Ubuntu isn't much better, but at least you don't have to worry about > install disks and serial numbers. I just keep a list of sudo apt-get > commands! That works pretty good until the Ubuntu gods just decide to > drop kick your apps (like sunbird) out of the repository.
Don't blame Ubuntu, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Sunbird "It was developed as a standalone version of the Lightning calendar and scheduling extension for Mozilla Thunderbird. Development of Sunbird was ended with release 1.0 beta 1 to focus on development of Mozilla Lightning.[6][7]" Ubuntu doesn't drop support for widely used software. I'd use Google's Calendar instead.
