From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 6 11:35:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BD1106564A for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:35:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nealhogan@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f190.google.com (mail-yw0-f190.google.com [209.85.211.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284808FC14 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh28 with SMTP id 28so1228143ywh.27 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:35:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=m1KF00PLYOfB2hM+KE68i9a1Zd5hsutw8s3BW4clQ4Q=; b=U5lG7XDikqY4dspfJoEmFZ/BHQ8RTygVCGqCmGSpsbGFqVq6J6M7ttPhAyDw7iI/a2 VxCEapkaJfWr332YEYCd+QQlz34EH27H5UyMajURPl7qHmpNIFNFdCCKJUu39X4nPrZp 11kEqZGphjWmsAMlwzEoQUDKiRgWXtCIAqgCI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bkVNQBbBGVYhLmNHCxxYc79IsWvmT+y17kYBZayXKwPU5xn7KUO68czWsLiJSGzUDs jqVLGgHOoEJ5VQYtVLV32ImN/gISPQuwCXZsiLxtXV9zVUtxNYVeDrhT1Mg0Bff4Knfu LE8RXMDcu84SkbKl4RvKQU19zoqF5ktWGU9+w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.144.17 with SMTP id r17mr2550417ybd.36.1249558556066; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:35:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200908060956.59358.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> References: <4A76FB32.9050601@videotron.ca> <4A7A89B3.6010206@mapper.nl> <200908060956.59358.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 06:35:56 -0500 Message-ID: From: Neal Hogan To: Jonathan McKeown Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:35:57 -0000 On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Jonathan McKeown 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" >