Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:23:10 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Wow! ixsystems..... Message-ID: <20100315082310.d35c6720.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20100314170049.GA55296@thought.org> References: <20100314170049.GA55296@thought.org>
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In response to Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>:
>
> Folks,
>
> Late last night i finally surfed into the ixsystems pages.
> WHile I haven't had a chance to check out the
> price/performance ration and compare it to other sites [[or
> maybe I'll do yet another roll-my-own]], I did happen on the
> PCBSD link. It really does look like FreeBSD people who do
> *not* wish to invest 101% of their lives getting
> thing-to-work on the most stable OS ever. My one question
> is: does at least everything that works under Ubuntu work
> under PC BSD? I mean, things like setting my text fonts to
> international? and being able to stream what streams {say,
> "FRONTLINE" or NOVA} that PBS has.
>
> Can i drop in a CD or DVD that I got from my pvblic library
> and have it play without mucking around creating mount-points
> like /media/dvd/0 and /media/cd/0? This is the latest thing
> to break with my 7.3RC.2. The sound-juicer doesn't recognize
> my music CD whereas my Ubuntu does. In other words, is
> PCBSD closer to the "Just-Works"{TM} side of things?
There are forums and an active community for PCBSD. Those places are
going to provide you a lot more feedback on questions like this.
I don't _use_ PCBSD ... I have _tried_ it, and my experience has been
very good. On an IBM laptop, everything just worked out of the box,
and worked well. My problem is that I like to tweak, and I'm already
happy with my ability to tweak FreeBSD :)
--
Bill Moran
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