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Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>,
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Subject: Re: Explaining FreeBSD features
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Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote:

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>>I know some people who were to afraid to move to FreeBSD as they 
>>believed installing from source is equal to being a programmer.
> 
> Yeah I know a lot of people like that :)

For those people, the pcbsd project www.pcbsd.org might be an option. I 
didn't try it myself (yet), but from their website it looks like a 
promising approach.

Karel.