From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 23:04:28 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 F13F710656C5 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:04:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayve@sfsu.edu) Received: from iron3-mailrl.sfsu.edu (iron3-mailrl.sfsu.edu [130.212.10.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D08ED8FC1E for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:04:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Inbound-SFSU: False X-onepass: IPPSC X-From-SFSU: True X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAFNQfUuC1B9b/2dsb2JhbACbCHSxQAEJBYRIiFWCZIIDBIMVgR+BWYUU Received: from edg04.sfsu.edu ([130.212.31.91]) by iron3.sfsu.edu with ESMTP; 18 Feb 2010 15:04:28 -0800 Received: from EHB04.ad.sfsu.edu (130.212.31.28) by edg04.sfsu.edu (130.212.31.91) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.0.682.1; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:04:28 -0800 Received: from smtp01.sfsu.edu (130.212.10.100) by ehb.ad.sfsu.edu (130.212.31.28) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.0.682.1; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:04:27 -0800 Received: from libra.sfsu.edu ([130.212.10.238]) by mail05a.sfsu.edu (Lotus Domino Release 7.0.4HF59) with ESMTP id 2010021815042675-108 ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:04:26 -0800 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:04:26 -0800 From: KAYVEN RIESE To: Jayton Garnett In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20100218100632.GA60258@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on MAIL05a/SERVERS/SFSU(Release 7.0.4HF59 | August 11, 2009) at 02/18/2010 15:04:26, Serialize by Router on SMTP01/SERVERS/SFSU(Release 7.0.4|March 23, 2009) at 02/18/2010 15:04:27, Serialize complete at 02/18/2010 15:04:27 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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 23:04:29 -0000 On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Jayton Garnett wrote: > 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'. http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/pcbsd/p5060081.vhtml http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/pcbsd/p5060083.vhtml http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/bsdend/P5170124.vhtml http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/pcbsd/p506005801.vhtml http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/pcbsd/p506005901.vhtml > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > *----------------------------------------------------------* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *----------------------------------------------------------*