On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: > I want to learn BSD. I find that the best way to familiarize myself with a > distro is to adopt it as my main distro (for web browsing, email, word > processing, etc.). > > But the challenge of BSD have so far proven too much for me. It would take > too long to configure FreeBSD to my liking. I couldn't figure out what to > enter in GRUB to multi-boot Linux and BSD. I tried PC-BSD, GhostBSD, and > DragonflyBSD in VirtualBox. I've found PC-BSD agonizingly slow to install > and operate, and KDE didn't even boot up when I logged in. GhostBSD has too > many things that don't work, such as the keyboard on my laptop and my > Internet connection on my desktop. DragonflyBSD didn't boot up in Virtualbox. > > I recommend Linux Mint as a first Linux distro. It's user-friendly, > well-established, widely used, includes codecs/drivers that Ubuntu doesn't, > and has a Windows-like user interface. For those with older computers, I > recommend Puppy Linux or antiX Linux as a first distro. I'm looking for the > analogous choice in the BSD world. > > So what do you recommend as my first desktop BSD distro? What desktop BSD > distro is so easy to use that even Paris Hilton or Jessica "Chicken of the > Sea" Simpson can handle it? > > Please keep in mind that I have a slow Internet connection, and these BSD > distros are ENORMOUS. It took some 12-14 hours to download PC-BSD. >
I'm not sure I understand the question. Have you actually installed FreeBSD? Are you familiar with FreeBSD Ports system? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
