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    Re: Any body tried PC-BSD 7?

    Well, since PC-BSD7.01 was a big disappointment on my hardware, I'm hoping that DesktopBSD will prove to be better.
    They have continued with the snapshot builds of the new version (based on FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE)

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    Re: Any body tried PC-BSD 7?

    Quote Originally Posted by angryfirelord View Post
    I tried PC-BSD 7 and it corrupted my Vista partition. KDE4 is still NOT ready for mainstream usage yet and the fonts looked very jagged on my monitor. Needless to say, I re-installed Vista and just used regular FreeBSD with an XFCE desktop environment. Now I'm much happier.
    +1 I first tried KDE4 in Slackware and then recently tried it again in FreeBSD and it's buggy and slow as all get out

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    Re: Any body tried PC-BSD 7?

    For me PCBSD is just a convinient way to install FreeBSD with hardware autodetection, Flash and Java... The installation worked fine on my Acer laptop, no 3D with mobility radeon though. I don't like KDE4 either so I installed Gnome from ports instead. And I use ports for installing all my software...

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    Re: Any body tried PC-BSD 7?

    Quote Originally Posted by HuBaghdadi View Post
    Isn't Ubuntu just a large plate of bloat with a small selection of DEB's?
    Just curious...
    That's why there's an alternate CD.

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    Re: Any body tried PC-BSD 7?

    I really wanted to try out BSD, so I downloaded PC-BSD and FreeBSD. Well what can I say, neither liked my external CD Drive and so would not boot on my EEE. (I checked over at the FreeBSD forums, they didn't think it was strange that a standard IDE CD ROM drive would fail to be detected...) Ah well.

    So I tried PC-BSD on my main system, my PC is a good spec yet I aborted the install about 25 minutes in, it was only 19% done. It was still going, I'm sure it would have succeeded but when I can install any Linux distro or even (gasp) Windows in about 15 minutes total I'm not impressed.

    Also I don't like KDE. I'm not having a go at the BSDs but they're not for me.

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    Re: Any body tried PC-BSD 7?

    Quote Originally Posted by scottuss View Post
    I really wanted to try out BSD, so I downloaded PC-BSD and FreeBSD. Well what can I say, neither liked my external CD Drive and so would not boot on my EEE. (I checked over at the FreeBSD forums, they didn't think it was strange that a standard IDE CD ROM drive would fail to be detected...) Ah well.

    So I tried PC-BSD on my main system, my PC is a good spec yet I aborted the install about 25 minutes in, it was only 19% done. It was still going, I'm sure it would have succeeded but when I can install any Linux distro or even (gasp) Windows in about 15 minutes total I'm not impressed.

    Also I don't like KDE. I'm not having a go at the BSDs but they're not for me.
    lol Windows does not take 15 minutes to install, however NetBSD does . Even most linux distro do not install within fifteen minutes (personal experiences vary but Ubuntu has never been that fast for me). As for KDE that's only default on *BSDs such as PC-BSD and DesktopBSD but for others FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD GUI is not included in the installation and you can add gnome or xfce afterwords.

    As for your problem with your CD drive I'm not suprised since one of the major drawbacks that I have found with the BSD OSs is that they are often behind their linux counterparts in terms of Hardware support.

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    Re: Any body tried PC-BSD 7?

    Quote Originally Posted by C!oud View Post
    lol Windows does not take 15 minutes to install, however NetBSD does . Even most linux distro do not install within fifteen minutes (personal experiences vary but Ubuntu has never been that fast for me). As for KDE that's only default on *BSDs such as PC-BSD and DesktopBSD but for others FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD GUI is not included in the installation and you can add gnome or xfce afterwords.

    As for your problem with your CD drive I'm not suprised since one of the major drawbacks that I have found with the BSD OSs is that they are often behind their linux counterparts in terms of Hardware support.
    Actually I can install Windows in 15 minutes on my main PC, and Ubuntu installs in less actually.

    Also after looking at the FreeBSD Gnome pages on their website it seems a lot of things haven't been ported yet (NetworkManager being one of them)

    I wont ever use Windows on a machine of my own ever again and I can safely say my machines will be Linux based for quite some time until BSD gets it's act sorted out for desktop use. (It's awesome for servers, my friend uses it and highly recommends it.)

    P.S I appreciate that BSD is sometimes a bit behind with hardware support but come on, a standard CD drive?

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    Re: Any body tried PC-BSD 7?

    Quote Originally Posted by C!oud View Post
    lol Windows does not take 15 minutes to install, however NetBSD does . Even most linux distro do not install within fifteen minutes (personal experiences vary but Ubuntu has never been that fast for me). As for KDE that's only default on *BSDs such as PC-BSD and DesktopBSD but for others FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD GUI is not included in the installation and you can add gnome or xfce afterwords.

    As for your problem with your CD drive I'm not suprised since one of the major drawbacks that I have found with the BSD OSs is that they are often behind their linux counterparts in terms of Hardware support.
    What?! I've never seen a NetBSD install take more than 7 minutes...

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    Re: Any body tried PC-BSD 7?

    Quote Originally Posted by cardinals_fan View Post
    What?! I've never seen a NetBSD install take more than 7 minutes...
    I was referencing to the original statement of installing Windows and Ubuntu in 15 minutes. For me it's all relative, I pop in the CD, start the installation, then go walk the dog around the block and when I'm back it's done. Doesn't get much better than that

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