On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:24:00PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> My experience with PC-BSD was that it was just different enough to
> break alot of FreeBSD's documentation, and they don't have enough of
> their own. I was a newbie, of course, but I went with vanilla FreeBSD
> because of the handbook and freebsd-questions, and I've no regrets.
> Been at least 9 months. Course I like to hack.
>
I've hacked some of the src code when I *had* to, but my main
goal is to have a for-fun server which is easy to maintain and
where most ports work. Desktop-BSD sounds lkie the better
choice if PC-BSD isn't easy to upgrade. ...Then again, since
FBSD keeps improving, maybe it/we have the "real" Desktop:-)
OTOH, is PC-BSD upgrades *everything* when you go from, say,
1.4 to 1.4.1 (every six months), no package management system
would be necessary. --I really do understand the problems the
ports/packages stuff has. I've been using FBSD since 2.0.5--
One of the faults with Ubuntu (aside that its filesystem eats/ate
some files) is that to upgrade means risking disaster if you
hit/bump/strike the wrong key.
> Steve
>
[[ ... ]]
> >
> > I've used PC-BSD, and agree with Jonathan - it's package management
> > system is a bit funky. It's real FreeBSD, but...
> >
> > I've also used Freesbie, which is a live CD with (last I looked) an
> > XFCE4 desktop, and I liked it. In particular, I liked that it would
> > install itself to your machine if you told it to do so, and then it
> > became just a standard FreeBSD install. That was about a year ago,
> > though, so I expect it's even better now.
> >
> > Kurt
Thanks for everyone's comments, onlist and off. The only
question I haveleft is how to install PC- or Desktop-BSD.
Do I download a couple floppies and install from there,
buy a CD or DVD, or download a CD's worth of binaries? I'm
wedged with a slow DSL/IDSN link, so it suck 600+ MB over the
wire means 15 hours.
gary
>
>
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> Steve Franks, KE7BTE
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