RonB schreef:
snipe wrote:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:47:31 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
PC-BSD 7 Released
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| This release marks a milestone for PC-BSD, by moving to the latest
FreeBSD | 7-Stable and also incorporating the KDE 4.1.1 desktop. Users
will immediately | notice the improved visual interface that KDE 4.1.1
offers, as well as a | large improvement in hardware support and speed
from the update to FreeBSD | 7-Stable.
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http://www.osnews.com/story/20289/PC-BSD_7_Released
I get the feeling the PC-BSD guys are trying to emulate Apple's success
at building OSX on top of FreeBSD. However, Apple only had to support
their own hardware, whereas PC-BSD needs to support a very wide range of
undocumented hardware built by thousands of vendors. As a server OS with
limited development manpower, FreeBSD lacks that broad support for
consumer devices and isn't likely ever to have it.
I've used PC-BSD and it did a really good job of supporting the hardware I
threw at it. My main problem was my own lack of experience and ignorance --
if there wasn't a PBI for the program I wanted, I didn't know how to
download the source and build it for myself. I would say the easy access to
a large program repository would be more limiting than its hardware
support.
Well actually it has a package manager too: pkg it's pretty much apt and
YUM alike. e.g.:
pkg -a package
-a forces the pkg to fetch the package from a server. If you leave -a it
expects a local file (downloaded or from CD).
Unfortunately it's not as reliable as apt-get or YUM, because sometimes
it fails to resolve dependencies.
To use the ports collection, you'll have to fetch it first. There is an
additional module in the Configuration center IIRC that does the job.
As for "building OSX on top of FreeBSD" -- PC-BSD has always used KDE.
Version 7 uses KDE 4.1.1.
I realize that the user base is much smaller in BSD than Linux, but PC-BSD
doesn't stand alone -- it's built on FreeBSD, which has been around for
quite a while.
The FreeBSD handbook is a great source of information and the forum is
very friendly and helpful.
It's a nice distro, but personally is still prefer GNU/Linux.
Cheers
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