Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/03/2012 22:56, Da Rock wrote: That's also an obligation to test it. PC-BSD is a product, by a private company. The burden of proof is on them. PC-BSD is an organisation or group; I wouldn't go as far as calling them a private company. No, the company behind PC-BSD is called iXsystems.

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:52:15 + Matthew Seaman articulated: No, the company behind PC-BSD is called iXsystems. They do an awful lot in the FreeBSD sphere, and PC-BSD is one of their products. While PC-BSD is a community driven project, iXsystems employs the project founder and lead

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Da Rock
On 03/05/12 19:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/03/2012 22:56, Da Rock wrote: That's also an obligation to test it. PC-BSD is a product, by a private company. The burden of proof is on them. PC-BSD is an organisation or group; I wouldn't go as far as calling them a private company. No, the

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:52:15 + Matthew Seaman articulated: On 04/03/2012 22:56, Da Rock wrote: That's also an obligation to test it. PC-BSD is a product, by a private company. The burden of proof is on them. PC-BSD is an organisation or group; I wouldn't go as far as calling them

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/03/2012 12:10, Jerry wrote: Matthew, is this the URL for iXsystems http://www.ixsystems.com/ that you are referring to? Yep. That's the company. I was examining their company page: http://www.ixsystems.com/ix/about/our-company and they seem quite impressive. Also, the support page

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-04 Thread jb
Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com writes: ... There are lots of people who are looking for turnkey / no docs needed systems, with give me simplified choices but handle obvious errors with a nice dialog window or fix-it 'wizard', instead of requiring CLI sysadmin experience, reading error

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-04 Thread Da Rock
On 03/05/12 07:23, jb wrote: Chuck Swigercswigerat mac.com writes: ... There are lots of people who are looking for turnkey / no docs needed systems, with give me simplified choices but handle obvious errors with a nice dialog window or fix-it 'wizard', instead of requiring CLI sysadmin

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-04 Thread Edward M.
On 03/04/2012 12:27 AM, jb wrote: But ..., the charm disappeared when I (intentionally ?) pulled ethernet plug and started update manager ... Classic example of fallacious reasoning. update manager needs the internet to access the updates ___