From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 21:03:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EFB51065670 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:03:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from garmitage@swin.edu.au) Received: from gpo3.cc.swin.edu.au (gpo3.cc.swin.edu.au [136.186.1.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277948FC1C for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:03:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [136.186.229.43] (garmitage2.caia.swin.edu.au [136.186.229.43]) by gpo3.cc.swin.edu.au (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2TKBj2a025019 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:11:47 +1100 Message-ID: <4D923CF7.6070006@swin.edu.au> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:11:35 +1100 From: grenville armitage User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20110329141622.59e31557.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20110329141622.59e31557.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Best first desktop BSD distro X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:03:35 -0000 On 03/30/2011 06:16, Jason Hsu wrote: [..] > So what do you recommend as my first desktop BSD distro? PC-BSD. Seriously. You say you've got it already, so try it on real hardware rather than inside virtualbox. I use PC-BSD 8.1 for both my home and work desktops. Try using PC-BSD's "PBI" package system for plug-n-play installation of common things like Firefox, Thunderbird, VirtualBox, etc from the GUI. (Some of them are already on the PC-BSD DVD image as PBI files.) Is PC-BSD "better" than the best linux desktop distros? Probably not. But it is a good way to get a FreeBSD desktop running. cheers, gja