Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:39:28 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: installing freebsd on windows Message-ID: <49CC1230.8060005@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903251125200.31143@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <49C98507.6040905@gwi.net> <20090325034317.160b149d.freebsd@edvax.de> <49C99E1C.9090303@gwi.net> <20090325041118.5c99710a.freebsd@edvax.de> <49C9A572.3070006@gwi.net> <20090325045911.56efaff6.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903251125200.31143@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> PC-BSD ===> http://www.pcbsd.org/ >> DesktopBSD ===> http://www.desktopbsd.net/ >> >> And PC-BSD even provides an installer (PBI) that makes "Windows" >> users feel at home: Download something from the web manually, >> then click "next, next, next, finish" and have an application >> installed. :-) > > even more - it's even as slow and messy as windows. no idea about > stability - possibly it's better. > > personally - i've tried once PC-BSD, removed it one hour after installing. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. On reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have done an excellent job and it's really come of age recently. I now spend almost zero time maintaining and tweaking my computer (apart from from some laptop acpi teething troubles). I used to keep Windows XP handy for a diminishing number of things, now it is truly redundant. It's personal choice not a hard and fast rule. Everyone has different circumstances. If I was using old hardware, as I think you do, I would probably think differently but on this 2GHz 1GB ram machine it's great, and I still have FreeBSD underneath to play with if I want. Chris
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