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
Running FreeBSD on my home server and about to try PC-BSD on the laptop.
I really like BSD on the server; haven't tried any variants as a desktop
yet to comment.
A word of advice when running *BSD under Vmware however.
Add a line in /boot/loader.conf that states :
kern.hz=100
This will drop the normal BSD clock polling rate to 100, not 1000 which
it normally runs at. This will speed up your session IMMEASURABLY!
Brat.
