Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:52:36 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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: <20090806235236.75d43aee.freebsd@edvax.de> 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, 6 Aug 2009 09:56:59 +0200, Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> wrote: > PC-BSD is FreeBSD, pre-packaged with a usable desktop and its own simplified > package manager. If you're talking about PBI, that's what the "average user" expects: You open a web browser (d'oh), search for what you think will be the software you need (plus-d'oh) and download it (doubleplus-d'oh). As long as you use PBI only, there's no interference with ports or packages, but you are not encouraged to use a "mix", allthough it's mostly possible. Don't get me wrong: I have several friends who use PC-BSD for years happily now, but it's definitely not my cup of tea for several reasons. PC-BSD does probide a KDE-based preconfigured environment and lots of preinstalled software. It's completely sufficient for the "average user", allthough not for the "average user in Germany", because KDE's internationalisation is not so good (Gnome's is better, as far as I've seen), and not all PBI packages do conform to the language setting (e. g. install in German, install kmplayer, it will be in English, and error messages will be in English, too, that scares the average German user away). -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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