From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 14 17:00:56 2010 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 4DDDB106564A for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:00:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 102748FC17 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:00:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o2EH0q7L029977 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:00:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:00:51 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20100314170049.GA55296@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: Subject: Wow! ixsystems..... 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: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:00:56 -0000 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? tia, y'all! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php