From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 15 23:19:13 2007 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 F335216A419 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:19:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdwicker@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C760813C459 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:19:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdwicker@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so80887waf for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:19:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=oS1EDPGe/rdA8v8qD2EF+RYfCl5lNgHB40FFUBRkWqr+l/0ezWbUa1n7+3Dw6IlkZCx8I/TT7s9OVlCSSc/wQ21Ry2uM/+MeyghmTt2Q69ZTUHoyNoaJ+2sk9wFL9YkfMhCpkB/rZH2lMJB2pmKs52i/giDbtzIWi9bGDtNVX+k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=mQnYX/KpiHMmhy/NgSEoBc3RtVAO096kgTl2qiWNedOKkV8BJfiLO8bXGmfbVkNi+l4V30uTcRL0BJahhaa5eK2ETpYnHKNl3AdmCzGNYxcJcq6LHowg20mA/H37XWVWkMhBps8vIPIEzhQFESIB2HDrJC2ohO3QmWuZIVdGyMI= Received: by 10.114.38.2 with SMTP id l2mr590337wal.1187218330733; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.202.4 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2d19405f0708151552s6f09c38aw20bf141f81ddf9df@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:52:10 -0700 From: "FreeBSD WickerBill" To: "Wojciech Puchar" In-Reply-To: <20070810093848.O76834@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <46BA9682.7020203@ix.netcom.com> <499c70c0708091015x738bb60sa80de64cc9969447@mail.gmail.com> <20070810093848.O76834@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Convince me, please! 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: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:19:13 -0000 On 8/10/07, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > Start with DesktopBSD 1.6 since it's closer to FreeBSD than PC-BSD if > > you need to learn FreeBSD more. > > both of them should win a similar message at www.freebsd.org > > "We are not supporting both DesktopBSD and PC-BSD. that's not out > products, just loosely based on FreeBSD. Please DO NOT judge FreeBSD based > of them" > _______________________________________________ > 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" > I don't know where you get 'loosely based on' ... both products are based _directly_ on FreeBSD... PC-BSD 1.3 on 6.1 p11 and 1.4 beta on 6.2 p3. DesktopBSD 1.6 is based on 6.2 AFAIK. Both _fully_ support ports and packages and are simply FreeBSD coupled to a KDE desktop of their creator's choice which you could easily modify using pkg_add/pkg_delete. PC-BSD does allow a user to use PBIs (Push Button Installer) which will install a package to it's unique directory with all the dependencies needed in that directory or one of its subs. This doesn't impinge on either ports or packages but does tend to use more disk space. Both current beta products use xorg 7.2. I too have been using FreeBSD since 2.2.8 and see no problems having a quick, easy to install (less than 10 minutes on a 165 Opteron) surfing desktop that doesn't spend 3 hours a day scanning for viruses or spyware. -- --I'm not 'renting' my OS--