I disagree (partially). 1st: PCBSD has a graphical installer. But I don't think a graphical installer is needed. An installer with a curses-like menu-driven interface is sufficient for most techy users (and face it: aunt Jamie is not the target audience for *BSD). But I admit that some menus of the *BSD installers are a little bit cryptic. The installer also lacks a good help facility. Perhaps it needs a little polishing.
2nd: The lack of a live CD is a real problem. A live CD is crucial for testing hardware compatibility and for data rescue (accessing a UFS formatted BSD-slice from a Linux live CD should be theoretically possible, but I never got it working). 3rd: *BSD is a great server OS. It tried to switch my desktop machine too, but in the end two problems blocked that: (a) Automounting USB media never worked really good. (b) I have large amount of data on ext2/ext3 formatted media. I can't convert them online to UFS, and I never got the ext2/ext3 fs-driver for *BSD to correct work. Conclusion: A graphical installer is a nice add-on, but no must-have. An curses-like interface is ok. But perhaps the installer needs some polishing. The lack of a live CD is a real problem. And for desktop usage *BSD needs working automounting and a good ext2/ext3 driver. Best wishes, --Peer Am Dienstag, den 15.12.2009, 16:33 +0100 schrieb Jan Husar: > http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1123&tag=nl.e011 > _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"