From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 10 04:24:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FFF16A420 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:24:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDAF13C45B for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:24:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so204026nfb for ; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:24:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Lf/MT+sADxfrY70bDkw+gVuR/w+3sbXN0f5STZJvwtHGOSta+eR6H6ovXb0kORFdPfIqTRqNNyXRqA9MoixPRWTbGcOZZSF1rVMpxVFl1xxsnnnJxk1yAt4m5I/xeicTnSW7IlUtz7a5200DQZdFiQWlmmgqz5dBQ2LQuVWMhpI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=myFAImB1Lmmn5tQCHoDKsPlgilMstBxOx6ps7AbvF21ibXhgr0jUaJx79uuzyTr7UKcYnASkG3Vi/FSUSPBFOvqr923eYLcXHB1Tl5Ajf7XZpP8ERBngAkqS3TY6eoLRl1Qxh0/IRiBDaw4o0IbMT5oAYnZgx8RqRf9MR+a8jx4= Received: by 10.78.185.15 with SMTP id i15mr774273huf.1186719840436; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.25.12 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <539c60b90708092124t51930f7ay4654fb05b6c8f302@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:24:00 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "Gary Kline" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070810011648.GA19606@thought.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: dfe72ca6fe7e5780 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: OT:: anybody on-list use "PC-BSD"? or "bSD-PC"? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:24:02 -0000 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. Course I like to hack. Steve On 8/9/07, Kurt Buff wrote: > On 8/9/07, Gary Kline 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. It's real FreeBSD, but... > > I've also used Freesbie, which is a live CD with (last I looked) an > XFCE4 desktop, and I liked it. In particular, I liked that it would > install itself to your machine if you told it to do so, and then it > became just a standard FreeBSD install. That was about a year ago, > though, so I expect it's even better now. > > Kurt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089