Re: OT:: anybody on-list use PC-BSD? or bSD-PC?

2007-08-16 Thread beni
On Friday 10 August 2007 01:16:48 Gary Kline wrote: Guys, A couple years ago I got a hold of Ubuntu and until recent months thought it was the best thing since [[ fill-in ]]. Long-story-shot, I am wedged at 6.06 (a Long Term Support) version, and because the

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use PC-BSD? or bSD-PC?

2007-08-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:24:00PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: My experience with PC-BSD was that it was just different enough to break alot of FreeBSD's documentation, and they don't have enough of their own. I was a newbie, of course, but I went with vanilla FreeBSD because of the handbook

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use PC-BSD? or bSD-PC?

2007-08-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
close. Has anybody on this list used the PC version of BSD? What about a desktop-BSD?? tested both when i needed some humour :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use PC-BSD? or bSD-PC?

2007-08-09 Thread Jonathan Horne
On 8/9/07 8:16 PM, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody on this list used the PC version of BSD? What about a desktop-BSD?? I gave them both a try when I first got into FreeBSD. I didn't particularly care for their package management system. DesktopBSD has a really cool little

OT:: anybody on-list use PC-BSD? or bSD-PC?

2007-08-09 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, A couple years ago I got a hold of Ubuntu and until recent months thought it was the best thing since [[ fill-in ]]. Long-story-shot, I am wedged at 6.06 (a Long Term Support) version, and because the *next* LTS isn't due until 2009 and

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use PC-BSD? or bSD-PC?

2007-08-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On 8/9/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, snip close. Has anybody on this list used the PC version of BSD? What about a desktop-BSD?? suggestion? advice? I've used PC-BSD, and agree with Jonathan - it's package management system is a bit funky. It's

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use PC-BSD? or bSD-PC?

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Franks
My experience with PC-BSD was that it was just different enough to break alot of FreeBSD's documentation, and they don't have enough of their own. I was a newbie, of course, but I went with vanilla FreeBSD because of the handbook and freebsd-questions, and I've no regrets. Been at least 9 months.