Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:11:35 +1100 From: grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best first desktop BSD distro Message-ID: <4D923CF7.6070006@swin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20110329141622.59e31557.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> References: <20110329141622.59e31557.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com>
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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
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