Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:16:20 +0400 From: Ilya Kazakevich <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> To: "four.harrisons@googlemail.com" <four.harrisons@googlemail.com> Cc: jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro Message-ID: <AANLkTi=OrNyOQG6fyCs5u1dEZhbBLeF3TMjbRST=nn--@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1892767898.53772.1301502751849.JavaMail.seven@ap4.trial.red.7sys.net> References: <1892767898.53772.1301502751849.JavaMail.seven@ap4.trial.red.7sys.net>
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> > If there is a choice between making things easy to learn and easy to use, > the design principle is to make it easy to use - even if that comes at the > cost of a steeper learning curve. > And you can always create easy-to-learn GUI-based tool that works on the top of low-level tools. BTW Microsoft came to this idea too (see "MinWin") > > So the easiest BSD? Any of them, if you're prepared to invest the time > learning it. > FreeBSD probably is the easiest to study in all BSD family because it has a really good handbook. But for people with *nix background (like linux) any BSD should not be difficult. > -- > > Peter Harrison > www.4harrisons.blogspot.com > > -original message- > Subject: Easiest desktop BSD distro > From: "Jason Hsu" <jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> > Date: 29/03/2011 21:14 > > I want to learn BSD. I find that the best way to familiarize myself with a > distro is to adopt it as my main distro (for web browsing, email, word > processing, etc.). > > But the challenge of BSD have so far proven too much for me. It would take > too long to configure FreeBSD to my liking. I couldn't figure out what to > enter in GRUB to multi-boot Linux and BSD. I tried PC-BSD, GhostBSD, and > DragonflyBSD in VirtualBox. I've found PC-BSD agonizingly slow to install > and operate, and KDE didn't even boot up when I logged in. GhostBSD has too > many things that don't work, such as the keyboard on my laptop and my > Internet connection on my desktop. DragonflyBSD didn't boot up in > Virtualbox. > > I recommend Linux Mint as a first Linux distro. It's user-friendly, > well-established, widely used, includes codecs/drivers that Ubuntu doesn't, > and has a Windows-like user interface. For those with older computers, I > recommend Puppy Linux or antiX Linux as a first distro. I'm looking for the > analogous choice in the BSD world. > > So what do you recommend as my first desktop BSD distro? What desktop BSD > distro is so easy to use that even Paris Hilton or Jessica "Chicken of the > Sea" Simpson can handle it? > > Please keep in mind that I have a slow Internet connection, and these BSD > distros are ENORMOUS. It took some 12-14 hours to download PC-BSD. > > -- > Jason Hsu <jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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