Comments on: PC-BSD review http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:16:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: dwilicious http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-15 dwilicious Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:54:58 +0000 http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-15 Nice review, very windows centric. But that’s not a problem since I'm a windows junkie. I love to use windows, but always eager to try other system. PCBSD is one of my favorites like debian or slack Nice review, very windows centric. But that’s not a problem since I’m a windows junkie. I love to use windows, but always eager to try other system. PCBSD is one of my favorites like debian or slack

]]> By: Morgan http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-14 Morgan Fri, 03 Feb 2006 01:02:43 +0000 http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-14 I'm a real big fan of PC-BSD's lesser known cousin, DesktopBSD. It's an easy to run desktop, but you don't have the problems introduced by running .pbi's. Instead, it uses a synaptic-like front-end to ports. Every file is built from source, so no conflicts with .pbi's, and no messing around with command line syntax to install packages. In the end, however, I find that FreeBSD and it's derivatives just don't have the hardware compatibility that I need, so I stick with debian derivatives and suse. I’m a real big fan of PC-BSD’s lesser known cousin, DesktopBSD. It’s an easy to run desktop, but you don’t have the problems introduced by running .pbi’s. Instead, it uses a synaptic-like front-end to ports. Every file is built from source, so no conflicts with .pbi’s, and no messing around with command line syntax to install packages.

In the end, however, I find that FreeBSD and it’s derivatives just don’t have the hardware compatibility that I need, so I stick with debian derivatives and suse.

]]> By: Duarte http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-12 Duarte Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:04:49 +0000 http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-12 By the way to change conf. files you don't need to log in as root simply go to menu and choose run and after type kdesu i believe is like this name of editor vi or another one and the path to the file after pwd and that's it.. cheers i tested pc-bsd from 0.7 beta till now mixed with a lot of linux distros By the way to change conf. files you don’t need to log in as root simply go to menu and choose run and after type kdesu i believe is like this name of editor vi or another one and the path to the file after pwd and that’s it.. cheers i tested pc-bsd from 0.7 beta till now mixed with a lot of linux distros

]]> By: kevwit http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-11 kevwit Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:17:04 +0000 http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-11 What about Xandros? It is almost too close to windows, but the business version with crossover office is slick. What about Xandros? It is almost too close to windows, but the business version with crossover office is slick.

]]> By: pparada http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-10 pparada Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:59:04 +0000 http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-10 You might want to try Kanotix. You can test drive it from the cd drive as its a live distro. Of course you only really see it in action when its on the hard drive... After slackware, debian, mandriva, ubuntu, kubuntu, gentoo, fedora and vector, I have settled on this one. (Though of course I'm bound to try a few others). I run a dual boot: Freebsd and Kanotix. Freebsd is an absolute cracker of a system, but it takes work to make it behave... In Linux I was looking for something that just worked, wanting a fullyautomatic system next to my freebsd (something that would help get the wife interested in life beyond windows), and figuring that with all the desktop development going on, there should be something usable out there. Anyway, the wife still uses windows on her machine, but I have hopes for my daughter with Kanotix... You might want to try Kanotix. You can test drive
it from the cd drive as its a live distro. Of course
you only really see it in action when its on the hard drive…
After slackware, debian, mandriva, ubuntu, kubuntu, gentoo, fedora and vector, I have settled on this one. (Though of course I’m bound to try a few
others).

I run a dual boot: Freebsd and Kanotix. Freebsd is
an absolute cracker of a system, but it takes work to make it behave… In Linux I was looking for something that just worked, wanting a fullyautomatic system next to my freebsd (something that would help get the wife interested in life beyond windows), and figuring that with all the desktop development going on, there should be something usable out there.

Anyway, the wife still uses windows on her machine, but I have hopes for my daughter with Kanotix…

]]> By: dissurion http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-9 dissurion Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:17:34 +0000 http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-9 Hey HXC, Thanks for the comment. I'll surely take a closer look at it. Hey HXC,
Thanks for the comment. I’ll surely take a closer look at it.

]]> By: HXC http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-8 HXC Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:36:44 +0000 http://www.dissurion.com/pc-bsd-review/#comment-8 May I suggest Kororaa to you? It is a Gentoo based distro. it has an incredible amount of available software (22.000+). Which can as easily be installed as apt-get trough the kuroo installer. I consider myself still a newbie but Kororoaa is the one that helped me to learn linux. More info: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kororaa http://kororaa.org/ May I suggest Kororaa to you? It is a Gentoo based distro. it has an incredible amount of available software (22.000+). Which can as easily be installed as apt-get trough the kuroo installer. I consider myself still a newbie but Kororoaa is the one that helped me to learn linux.

More info:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kororaa
http://kororaa.org/

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