----- Original Message -----
From: "Neal Hogan" <nealho...@gmail.com>
To: "Jonathan McKeown" <j.mcke...@ru.ac.za>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade
7.2overwrites partitions)
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Jonathan McKeown<j.mcke...@ru.ac.za>
wrote:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:43:47 Mark Stapper wrote:
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a "Ubuntu" like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
[snip]
To achieve this, there are two things that should be made easier:
1. Installing a basic desktop system(next to any currently installed OS)
2. Keeping the base system and ports up to date.
And when I mean "easier" I mean it should be done without bothering the
user unless you about to "rm -rf /" as root, so to say.
This is what a couple of projects are already doing. PC-BSD springs to
mind -
I can't remember what the other one is called.
DesktopBSD
DesktopBSD Project is dead for now...
PC-BSD is FreeBSD, pre-packaged with a usable desktop and its own
simplified
package manager.
Jonathan
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