Review: PC-BSD 1.3.1
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| PC-BSD is a variant of FreeBSD 6 that attempts to make FreeBSD
| much more friendly for desktop use. The installation is meant to
| be very simple and to give the user a fully working desktop system
| with minimal fuss. PC-BSD includes hardware auto-detection and comes
| with KDE 3.5. Moreover, PC-BSD has a new package system that is
| designed to install software by simply double-clicking on a package.
|
| [...]
|
| Other than the install problems on my desktop, and the annoying hanging
| issue, I really liked PC-BSD.
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http://www.triedit.org/review/review-pc-bsd-1301/
OpenBeOS: It's Alive and Well
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| Yes, Haiku has a lot to offer to those looking for some ripe, fresh
| development ground within the open source community. And considering
| the use of the easy to abide by MIT License, it does have some
| possibilities once the OS has been given a chance to mature some.
|
| I suppose you might be able to argue that at the end of the day,
| Haiku is an OS for the no-nonsense minimalist in mind.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=&task=view&id=2460
Among the Open Source operating systems, Linux seems to be the most mature
(see below).
Related:
BSD goes live with FreeSBIE 2.0
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| Last year the Italian FreeBSD user group, GUFI, rekindled the
| FreeSBIE project to develop a live CD based on the FreeBSD
| operating system. After more than four months of development,
| and an equal number of beta releases, the project released
| FreesBIE 2.0 this month.
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http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/1713250&from=rss
FreeBSD 6.2: Polished, More Stable
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| Developers on the free version of the BSD Unix operating system hope
| it will help build momentum for what is arguably the most popular BSD
| variant in use.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3654371
GNU/Solaris - the Free OS of the Future?
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| We'll have to wait and see what happens, but this looks a positive
| step in the direction of Freedom by Sun.
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http://www.libervis.com/article/gnu_solaris_the_free_os_of_the_future
Review: PC-BSD 1.3
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| PC-BSD's hardware support is good, but not quite on par with that of
| some Linux distributions. Part of this may be that BSD lacks some
| of the drivers available for Linux, and part of it seems to be
| related to the configuration utilities for PC-BSD. For example,
| PC-BSD seems to see my wireless card, but doesn't provide any
| tools (at least that I could find) to manage the card, supply a
| WEP password, or otherwise change the card's configuration.
|
| [...]
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| On my Ubuntu desktop, I can plug in a USB soundcard and configure
| it to handle certain tasks (such as running Skype) and use my
| system soundcard for other tasks. I didn't see any way to manage
| multiple soundcards through the tools provided by PC-BSD.
|
| In short, PC-BSD is a bit behind Linux in hardware support. For
| standard desktops, its hardware support is probably sufficient.
| For some laptops or more complex hardware scenarios (such as
| multiple soundcards) it may require some advanced configuration.
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http://distrocenter.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/09/1426257&tid=127&tid=13
PC-BSD 1.3: Day 1
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| I hate to lose all my credibility in my first post, but FreeBSD makes
| a great console OS, since I have never gotten Xfree to configure
| properly on any desktop or laptop I have owned. I would spend a
| few hours researching the problem, then think "Linux is easier"
| and wipe the drive.
|
| That said, the allure of BSD remains: fast, modern, capable of
| running on just about anything from toasters to mainframes, and
| less fragmented than Linux. What's not to love?
|
| Projects like DesktopBSD and PC-BSD are perfect for the likes of
| me: someone that wants to get a BSD desktop running, but doesn't
| want to spend alot of time doing it.
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http://aweekwith.blogspot.com/2007/01/pc-bsd-13-day-1.html
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