Any body tried PC-BSD 7?

[sir_cheats_a_lot]

actually no. ubuntu has one of the biggest software repositories of all linux distributions(assuming you enabled the multiverse, and universe sections as well). PC-BSD literally only had 50 apps total on their PBI section the last i saw it.

[HuBaghdadi]

Please correct my if I'm wrong:
PC-BSD has a tool that is similiar to Synaptic for installing software.
Any FreeBSD package should be downloaded via this tool.
(AFAIK, FreeBSD has more thant 20.000 package in their repository)

[techmarks]

It's just regular FreeBSD so all the packages for FreeBSD will work with PCBSD.

I tried it, it's nice,

The installation is very polished and easy.

But why did they have to pick KDE for the desktop?

At least if they offered a choice at the installation.

[HuBaghdadi]

Any FreeBSD package is installable via PC-BSD packaging tool, right?

[techmarks]

Any FreeBSD package is installable via PC-BSD packaging tool, right?

I'm not sure what you mean.

You can install the PCBSD way, the PBI's (not so much software).

The traditional way (the only one I used since it's what I'm accustomed to on FreeBSD) which is the packages (easy binary install) and ports (you have to compile them).

I don't think you can use PBI's on FreeBSD yet, but any FreeBSD package or port can be installed on PCBSD.

[HuBaghdadi]

My original thouhgt of PC-BSD that it has a software manager like Synaptic.
And via this tool, any FreeBSD package should be downloadable.
For any FreeBSD package to work with PC-BSD software manager, it should be packaged as PBI, right?

[cardinals_fan]

Isn't Ubuntu just a large plate of bloat with a small selection of DEB's?
Just curious...

The selection of debs isn't small, but I do consider Ubuntu horribly bloated.

My original thouhgt of PC-BSD that it has a software manager like Synaptic.
And via this tool, any FreeBSD package should be downloadable.
For any FreeBSD package to work with PC-BSD software manager, it should be packaged as PBI, right?

That would be DesktopBSD. PC-BSD does allow installation from Ports, but they prefer that you use their silly PBIs. DesktopBSD, on the other hand, provides a relatively pure FreeBSD preconfigured for the user. Their current stable release is based off FreeBSD 6.x, but they have a snapshot available for FreeBSD 7.

[sir_cheats_a_lot]

but I do consider Ubuntu horribly bloated.

odd.. I've never noticed bloat on Ubuntu.. Kubuntu sure, they have that annoying little auto-updater on Kubuntu that runs in the background which is kinda cruel to us dial-up users. there really needs to be an option to turn that off . end up going into sysguard and killing apt so i can actually get to where i need to go online. I left windows to get away from that kinda crap, after all most of us are capable of getting the updates ourselves.

anyhow i believe PC-BSD was originally aimed at migrating windows users. this is likely why they are using KDE, to give the new users a more windows-like feel. didn't see any package manager like program on my version. though i would imagine there is one in current versions. was just an icon that pointed to their PBI download site.

I will give them their due credit though. From my experience with the version i have, it runs stable and it runs well on 512mb of ram, probably would run decent enough on 256 mb of ram. and it was pretty easy to use(at least up to the point i played with it). i think the version i have was based on freeBSD 5 if that makes a whole lot of difference, .

[cardinals_fan]

odd.. I've never noticed bloat on Ubuntu.. Kubuntu sure, they have that annoying little auto-updater on Kubuntu that runs in the background which is kinda cruel to us dial-up users. there really needs to be an option to turn that off . end up going into sysguard and killing apt so i can actually get to where i need to go online. I left windows to get away from that kinda crap, after all most of us are capable of getting the updates ourselves.

GNOME itself qualifies as bloat in my book.

[sir_cheats_a_lot]

GNOME itself qualifies as bloat in my book.

install fluxbox (or any one of the other window managers for that matter), and remove gnome then. It's not like you are forced to use gnome on ubuntu.


at anyrate this is off topic; i believe we missed that poor soul asking for help on page 1