Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:27:47 +0000 (UTC) From: jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ? Message-ID: <loom.20120304T091118-682@post.gmane.org>
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Hi, some month ago I saw PC-BSD 9 release announcement and was curious enough to try it. Also, it received a good review on some mostly Linux oriented web site. The installation was very pleasant thanks to its installer - a very impressive software component (considering rather spartan installers in FreeBSD) and a good and inviting intro to the OS for a user. The good impression continued into presence of other components, which were listed in their announcement. But ..., the charm disappeared when I (intentionally ?) pulled ethernet plug and started update manager ... The system went into some twilight zone, making the desktop unresponsive, from which I could not recover, even by trying to kill offending processes I had no clue about as a first time user. Unusable. OK. The usual stuff - software released, but not tested. Perhaps a method in it, like "...if the product is not tested enough, we can count on users to get angry, and they will subscribe to our lists, and become active devs. and testers, and users, and ...". Who knows ... But then I am missing it. My romance ended very quickly, on the first date. A few days ago I read this, from a good, minimum-functional-tests-must-pass, some wit but no-nonsense reviewer: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/pc-bsd-9.html Well, "Radioactive", "The shortest experience ever!". Does it matter to FreeBSD ? jb
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