Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:41:55 +0300 From: "Ivailo Bonev" <ibb_orac@mbox.contact.bg> To: "Neal Hogan" <nealhogan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2overwrites partitions) Message-ID: <69A1ABAF9CD44B399B6773FF6EC580AF@chameleon> References: <4A76FB32.9050601@videotron.ca> <h5crnd$f9m$1@ger.gmane.org><4A7A89B3.6010206@mapper.nl> <200908060956.59358.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <ab7b49bc0908060435k184d4c42x2103d6d3ce8adf8f@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Neal Hogan" <nealhogan@gmail.com> To: "Jonathan McKeown" <j.mckeown@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.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 DesktopBSD Project is dead for now... >> 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" >> > _______________________________________________ > 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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