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Subject: Re: PC-BSD and DesktopBSD compared to FreeBSD
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Charles P. Schaum wrote:
> A note on PC-BSD and DesktopBSD as compared to my -STABLE experiences:
> 
> -STABLE works best. First, PC-BSD will panic under more conditions than
> -RELEASE, -STABLE or DesktopBSD. I did some monkeying around and found
> that to be true, especially with older boxes. Second, DesktopBSD works
> better than PC-BSD, and noticeably so. But it's based on 5 and I want 6.
> So that kinda throws a spanner in the works.

The DesktopBSD development version is based on 6-Stable. they're waiting
for the 6.2 release to release their new release.