Brett Davidson wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
I added PC-BSD-1.4.1 yesterday.
This is the simplest install ever!
_BUT_ FreeBSD and descendants, of which PC-BSD is one, have the
disadvantage that there is no native FlashPlayer-9 for them, and
Google says that Adobe seems to be completely mute on the subject.
Somebody is reported to have fixed up a kludge using I.E. and Wine,
but I know nothing about that. Similarly I have not tried its
abilities with WinModems
Otherwise this seems to be a superb Unix implementation.
The second CD has the I18N stuff and the KDE applications, and Firefox
on it, so you need both CDs unless you are happy with a pretty
emasculated install
Actually, Chris, with xBSD, you really only need the install CD.
It's easier (not to mention more uptodate) to just use the Ports
system to get all of that stuff.
Some people have also managed to kludge Flash using the inbuilt Linux
emulation but as I don't run a graphical head on my FreeBSD box I
can't comment.
Cheers,
Brat.
I think it involves something like running firefox as well as the flash
plugin under linux emulation. I never did get it to work, but others
have had better luck.
I didn't like the addon system for PC-BSD - any system that distributes
as one package the desired package AND all its required libraries is
gonna run into problems pretty quickly. Far better, as you say, to use
PC-BSD for a quick install and then go for ports.
ports usually stays very up to date, which is one of the reasons I run
it on my bittorrent machine. Certain sites insist on the latest stable
rtorrent, and freebsd was the only "distro" I could find that tracked it
well enough.
