On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:12:49 +1300 > > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > Really? I find freebsd ports to be far more up to date than gentoo, unless > you are running gentoo ~x86 (ie testing/unstable). I run ~x86. Partly as I like having the latest toys with which to play. They are only on the bleeding edge, but also because I am not financially dependent on my computer working, I can afford to be a beta tester, and yes I have found a few bugs bugs and reported on them.
> I am mainly thinking of multimedia stuff, but thats not the limit of it. I am going to rebuild my BSD box with the new PC-BSD which was released just the other day. (26-Jan.) > > , 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. > > Heartily agreed. Have it on my laptop, and it "just works". Anybody run the VMware version hosted on Windows? -- CS
