William Roddy wrote:
Has anyone tried PC-BSD? Does anyone know if that's a good place to start, for those of us who don't know FreeBSD?
I just gave it a shot, today. First of all, I am not a big fan of KDE (or Gnome for that matter), but it should provide a usable environment for those that use a GUI day-to-day.
Second, the native packaging system does not support checksums on the downloaded binaries. Ack. I would suggest sticking to the ports tree (which you should be doing anyway, imho) for installing software.
I am glad to see it doesn't install BASH by default. I say this not because I have anything _against_ BASH, but because other BSDs don't use BASH by default. It good to know that they have not changed that first shell experience on BSD.
Finally, PC-BSD seemed to detect and make use of most of my hardware on the test box. Nothing exciting in there, so not much of a surprise.
The OS seems reasonably capable, albeit underdeveloped. Despite having the hesitation to use a 'real' BSD, William, I would suggest just diving in to Free or NetBSD (OpenBSD has never really been the most 'user friendly' BSD - some quirks _will_ scare you). If anything hurts, just think, "it builds character!" =D
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