----- Original Message ----- From: "Neal Hogan" <[email protected]>
To: "Jonathan McKeown" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
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<[email protected]> 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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