From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 11 05:40:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE17016A41B for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:40:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDBC43D45 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:40:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so938131nzp for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:40:44 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=o2u+o28kK7AAytuiYSF1DpuLT82UsyreTH8hBLlrcCkTV2YfN16JZ9U4dh9VO+qMVnfhE04tobaVyrxPZggUneY7iaeKy+XKPLM0p90a744LwZfbWz4rHbIBp6zGA0B4B/PZ2b1TgUi6xvWx0St55ULyPw/EirFZ6i/BBbBpyVA= Received: by 10.37.13.40 with SMTP id q40mr6672805nzi; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.104.17 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:40:44 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Sergio Lenzi" In-Reply-To: <1150000820.4581.45.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <159b320e0606100145j5b8af20du931e6672b5e292ee@mail.gmail.com> <1150000820.4581.45.camel@localhost> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on laptops X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:40:45 -0000 On 6/10/06, Sergio Lenzi wrote: > > > > If you looking for a first time BSD desktop (KDE) then try PC-BSD. and > > If you can't get that to run (PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD) give SuSE > > 10.1 a go. > > > > > > Good option I tried... fast easy... the version is still 5.X ... but is > good... > it is KDE based.... > > PC-BSD 1.1 is based on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. I think your thinking of the DesktopBSD project... PC-BSD also has PBI installers packages, as well as access to all of FreeBSD's ports and packages collection. http://www.pcbsd.org/index.php?id=41 http://www.pcbsd.org/?p=learnpbi -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/