Going To Try PC-BSD

**Vince4Amy** · November 5th, 2008

I've been looking into BSD for a while but I've never bothered actually attempting to try it. I am going to give it a try today and see how it works out.

I decided to try PC-BSD as I've heard that it is really user friendly. I do however have an ATI card, but the radeonHD driver seems to work quite well for me on Linux so hopefully it will give the same or better results on BSD.

This morning I have been reading about BSD and I will give PC-BSD a try when I get home from school. I will be dual booting it on a computer with Windows Vista.

**cardinals_fan** · November 6th, 2008

KDE 4 + PBIs = Not My Cup of Tea

**cammin** · November 6th, 2008

PBI's aside. Most people seem to be having problems with PC-BSD 7.

If you can find a copy of PC-BSD 6.5, try that out instead. I wouldn't want you to get a bad impression of FreeBSD just because PC-BSD hasn't worked the bugs out of their newest version yet.

**LateNiteTV** · November 7th, 2008

i tried out pc-bsd for kicks a while ago and i never used their pbi crap.
i used ports and cvs.
then about 3 hours later i put freebsd back on that computer.

**Sorivenul** · November 8th, 2008

Try DesktopBSD as well, or instead. While you are not required to use PBIs with PC-BSD, it is just one more confusing matter when the ports system and pkg_add are elegant and simple. DesktopBSD still comes with more hardware support enabled by default than a GENERIC FreeBSD kernel, and for those looking to try *BSD the easy way, I believe it is the way to go. Just my two cents. Good luck, either way.

**Vince4Amy** · December 4th, 2008

PC-BSD never installed fully so I couldn't try it (Didn't mount the 2nd CD). Now I'm downloading DesktopBSD which I've read about and it seems very good.

**Steve_Barker** · December 4th, 2008

Originally Posted by cammin

PBI's aside. Most people seem to be having problems with PC-BSD 7.

If you can find a copy of PC-BSD 6.5, try that out instead. I wouldn't want you to get a bad impression of FreeBSD just because PC-BSD hasn't worked the bugs out of their newest version yet.

Would tend to agree, I have 7.01 working brilliantly, but it took some playing about to achieve - 6.5 just works, well.