Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:49:55 -0400 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: Jason Hsu <jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro Message-ID: <C9B8E077.11B15%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <20110329144527.c009ba8b.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com>
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I only know FreeBSD so I can't recommend any other BSD as being "easier". And I don't use a windowing system on it. But I've an answer to a question you didn't ask: FreeBSD in VirtualBox a convenient way of learning. It saves a lot of uninteresting messing around. And it allows me to save my project (by saving VM state), get on with some other work and come back to it later. Regarding your problems with internet speed, I think you can download one of the small FreeBSD images, run that and instruct the FreeBSD install program to get the files via FTP. Configure the installer to install only the set of OS parts you want. That should save a lot of download relative to the ISO images that contain everything. I've never done this but I expect others can help if you run into difficulty.
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