Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:28 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> Cc: Jason Hsu <jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro Message-ID: <20110331000028.00eb96c1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <C9B8E077.11B15%fsb@thefsb.org> References: <20110329144527.c009ba8b.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> <C9B8E077.11B15%fsb@thefsb.org>
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Allow me to add something here: On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:49:55 -0400, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote: > 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. There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a FreeBSD system image that can be used with VirtualBox. It is a preinstalled and preconfigured OS + applications comparable to PC-BSD, but it uses Xfce instead of KDE, and (in my opinion) it looks much better. :-) Project homepage: http://www.virtualbsd.info/ Screenshots: http://www.virtualbsd.info/screenshots/ Downloads: http://www.virtualbsd.info/download.html In order to download the 1.3 GB image, you can easily install e. g. the "ctorrent" program from ports, download the torrent file from the web page mentioned above, and then let ctorrent get the file. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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