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 th

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 handboo

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 http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

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.

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, > >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.

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 li