Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 06:35:56 -0500 From: Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com> To: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions) Message-ID: <ab7b49bc0908060435k184d4c42x2103d6d3ce8adf8f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200908060956.59358.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> References: <4A76FB32.9050601@videotron.ca> <h5crnd$f9m$1@ger.gmane.org> <4A7A89B3.6010206@mapper.nl> <200908060956.59358.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Jonathan McKeown<j.mckeown@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 > > PC-BSD is FreeBSD, pre-packaged with a usable desktop and its own simplified > package manager. > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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