Re: Best first desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread Paul A. Procacci
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 04:55:34PM -0400, J. Hellenthal wrote: > > I would place a pretty good bet that Paris Hilton could setup > and run a FreeBSD desktop. > What are you smoking? I want some. ;P -- Paul Procacci Manager, UNIX Support Services Datapipe Managed Global IT Services 1.201.792.

Re: Best first desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Jason Hsu wrote: > Thanks for your thoughts on making the move from Linux to BSD. I'm not > making the move because I don't like Linux. Instead, I want to learn BSD. > I find that the best way to familiarize myself with a distro is to adopt it > as my main dist

Re: Best first desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread grenville armitage
On 03/30/2011 06:16, Jason Hsu wrote: [..] So what do you recommend as my first desktop BSD distro? PC-BSD. Seriously. You say you've got it already, so try it on real hardware rather than inside virtualbox. I use PC-BSD 8.1 for both my home and work desktops. Try using PC-BSD's "PB

Re: Best first desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread J. Hellenthal
First I would recommend posting to the correct mailing list. Second I would recommend as much googling as your fingers can stand. Third BSD != Linux and this has been discussed in depth in previous articles. Fourth and foremost I would place a pretty good bet that Paris Hilton could setup and

Best first desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread Jason Hsu
Thanks for your thoughts on making the move from Linux to BSD. I'm not making the move because I don't like Linux. Instead, 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