From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 4 08:28:04 2012 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 43DBB106564A for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:28:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C068FC08 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:28:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S46nN-0000Bo-Qj for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:27:58 +0100 Received: from np-19-75.prenet.pl ([np-19-75.prenet.pl]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:27:57 +0100 Received: from jb.1234abcd by np-19-75.prenet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:27:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jb Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:27:47 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 30 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 79.139.19.75 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1) Subject: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ? 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: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:28:04 -0000 Hi, some month ago I saw PC-BSD 9 release announcement and was curious enough to try it. Also, it received a good review on some mostly Linux oriented web site. The installation was very pleasant thanks to its installer - a very impressive software component (considering rather spartan installers in FreeBSD) and a good and inviting intro to the OS for a user. The good impression continued into presence of other components, which were listed in their announcement. But ..., the charm disappeared when I (intentionally ?) pulled ethernet plug and started update manager ... The system went into some twilight zone, making the desktop unresponsive, from which I could not recover, even by trying to kill offending processes I had no clue about as a first time user. Unusable. OK. The usual stuff - software released, but not tested. Perhaps a method in it, like "...if the product is not tested enough, we can count on users to get angry, and they will subscribe to our lists, and become active devs. and testers, and users, and ...". Who knows ... But then I am missing it. My romance ended very quickly, on the first date. A few days ago I read this, from a good, minimum-functional-tests-must-pass, some wit but no-nonsense reviewer: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/pc-bsd-9.html Well, "Radioactive", "The shortest experience ever!". Does it matter to FreeBSD ? jb