From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 10:16:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9081065672 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:16:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jayton.garnett@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f219.google.com (mail-fx0-f219.google.com [209.85.220.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6CF78FC0A for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so1278235fxm.3 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:16:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=RGyn0MKBKrMLNJpuMchtlH0fGDCOFSdpzIoygzVpSYg=; b=cLepq4GqM0cpSci1VmUe4V8rUn1JDa5D/AvXmrAVcK2MpHL53S4sGAsyfzg1aqoMIb 9NhpIZ/An6UIRoDii08EOydQG8MrDFnnTAwv5O3In9TnLtKsJ9za/9CjSr1IMV6vriJk mjLxJdGJNB1bJTdBZsaQQDtwcgvgn0oQwx7vs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=OR/j8SVBAxs5aednHF+94QlszQ54xr24EAbFPLRfA06GT87hMItFP+6NTIG+e51VWm Zc4LvbxwyTpgkGvIgHIqqbbx4y3KPlW2TgHYHSpYtWP7CG5X2AA7ORYOM04uwhmfOycw j6JrG7NnqCkvbgqYxwltqjwyq/FCFXa+92h2M= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.16.83 with SMTP id n19mr1990955bka.96.1266488172307; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:16:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100218100632.GA60258@comcast.net> References: <20100218100632.GA60258@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:16:12 +0000 Message-ID: From: Jayton Garnett To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: LinuxBSDos.com article X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:16:14 -0000 That's a fair enough comment really. To the average PC user, yes it is going to be the only one to compete with Ubuntu - unsuccessfully. To the higher life forms - e.g. uber g33ks like us, no. Although when I tried it out, I did quite enjoy the experience of PCBSD. The keywords there is 'desktop distributions'. FreeBSD is more of a What-ever-you-want distro, and requires prior knowledge of what and where things are to get FreeBSD into a workable desktop environment, whereas PCBSD is more plug'n play and dare I say it 'just works'.