First I would recommend posting to the correct mailing list. Second I
would recommend as much googling as your fingers can stand. Third BSD !=
Linux and this has been discussed in depth in previous articles. Fourth
and foremost I would place a pretty good bet that Paris Hilton could setup
and run a FreeBSD desktop.
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:16, jhsu802701@ wrote:
Thanks for your thoughts on making the move from Linux to BSD. I'm not
making the move because I don't like Linux. Instead, I want to learn
BSD. I find that the best way to familiarize myself with a distro is to
adopt it as my main distro (for web browsing, email, word processing,
etc.). But the challenge of BSD have so far proven too much for me.
It would take too long to configure FreeBSD to my liking. I couldn't
figure out what to enter in GRUB to multi-boot Linux and BSD. I tried
PC-BSD, GhostBSD, and DragonflyBSD in VirtualBox. I've found PC-BSD
agonizingly slow to install and operate, and KDE didn't even boot up
when I logged in. GhostBSD has too many things that don't work, such as
the keyboard on my laptop and my Internet connection on my desktop.
DragonflyBSD didn't boot up in Virtualbox.
I recommend Linux Mint as a first Linux distro. It's user-friendly,
well-established, widely used, includes codecs/drivers that Ubuntu
doesn't, and has a Windows-like user interface. For those with older
computers, I recommend Puppy Linux or antiX Linux as a first distro.
I'm looking for the analogous choice in the BSD world.
So what do you recommend as my first desktop BSD distro? What desktop
BSD distro is so easy to use that even Paris Hilton can handle it?
Please keep in mind that I have a slow Internet connection, and these
BSD distros are ENORMOUS. It took some 12-14 hours to download PC-BSD.
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Regards,
J. Hellenthal
(0x89D8547E)
JJH48-ARIN
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