On 31/01/07, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
However-2. I installed PC-BSD the other month and found the install process by far the simplest I have experienced. While it may be heresy to say it here, I can duck the missiles, it just worked for me. It comes with a packaging system all of its own as well as using the FreeBSD ports system. Some of the packages were not as up to date as those to which I am accusomed on my Linux distribution of choice, but overall I can wholeheartedly recommend it, both for new refugees and also for the more seasoned of us wanting to have a go with a BSD unix.
I downloaded it last night. I've been meaning to take a wee break from linux and try PC-BSD for a while as my main OS. Julia won't notice because KDE is KDE and OOo is OOo regardless of the OS. And there's a PBI called "All Codecs" :-) In addition to FreeBSD ports, PC-BSD also has a Fedora compatibility layer. I will give a "Good, Bad & Ugly" report in a few weeks. If it doesn't stack up I can always go back to Gentoo (which I probably will eventually). Yuri [OS/2 Warp -> Caldera -> SuSE (7.0 IIRC) -> Mandrake -> Gentoo -> SuSE (briefly) -> PC-BSD; what a ride it's been!]
