In all honesty, I haven't setup FreeBSD in a few years for a desktop - we like it for servers & routers.
However, I seem to recall that the install was pretty painless. Out of curiosity - what is the status for EZ install/usage for something like 'FreeBSD on the desktop' ? Thanks, - mike On Aug 24, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Mark Lein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Julian H. Stacey <j...@berklix.com> wrote: > >> Hi advoc...@freebsd.org >> BSD media is in transit to 200 global cities for >> http://softwarefreedomday.org in 23 days >> >> However it &/or other BSD media will need copying to keep up with Linux >> as theres a Lot more free Ubuntu CDROMs going out at the same time, >> (a question of what richest sponsor pays most for) >> >> You could offer to run off a batch for your local city's SFD team. >> Maybe charge a beer or coffee copying charge per media to cover cost ? >> >> You could join the softwarefreedomday.org team in your local city, >> to help promote free software. >> http://softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011 >> >> A sample from Munich Germany http://berklix.org/sfd/ >> >> Cheers, >> Julian >> -- >> Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich >> http://berklix.com >> Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. >> Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, >> quoted-printable. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org >> " >> > > Now first off, don't get me wrong as I love FreeBSD... but wouldn't it make > more sense to send out something like PC-BSD? Something that people can run > without muss nor fuss, like Ubuntu? > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
