Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 09:56:59 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions) Message-ID: <200908060956.59358.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <4A7A89B3.6010206@mapper.nl> References: <4A76FB32.9050601@videotron.ca> <h5crnd$f9m$1@ger.gmane.org> <4A7A89B3.6010206@mapper.nl>
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On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:43:47 Mark Stapper wrote: > > In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a "Ubuntu" like movement > in the FreeBSD corner. > What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use > FreeBSD. [snip] > To achieve this, there are two things that should be made easier: > 1. Installing a basic desktop system(next to any currently installed OS) > 2. Keeping the base system and ports up to date. > And when I mean "easier" I mean it should be done without bothering the > user unless you about to "rm -rf /" as root, so to say. This is what a couple of projects are already doing. PC-BSD springs to mind - I can't remember what the other one is called. PC-BSD is FreeBSD, pre-packaged with a usable desktop and its own simplified package manager. Jonathan
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