One of the great things about my job is that I get to try out lots of fun software. Case in point, I spent some time with PC-BSD recently and it's quite a nice OS, overall. I'm not quite ready to ditch Linux yet, but if I did, I might just consider PC-BSD instead. Big kudos to the PC-BSD dev team, and I'm really curious how it's going to turn out in the long run.
Check out my review on NewsForge, and if you've had a chance to play with PC-BSD as well, I'd be curious to hear your comments on it as well.
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Ive been keeping a close eye on both PC-BSD and DesktopBSD lately, and I have to agree with you, they have come a long way in a short time.
I read your review, and while I agree with most of your points, there are some opinions that I just dont share. For example, the lack of Gimp, Koffice, OOo and similar is one of the things I really like about PC-BSD. PC-BSD provides a simple, clean and basic foundation for a desktop without cluttering it with a lot of software most people dont want. The basic utilities are there, and if you need more, installing it is simple. Most software sooner or later suffer from bloat because they try to provide everything by default, but so far, PC-BSD has been able to avoid it. I sincerely hope they keep it that way!
Very cool! Now that iXsystems owns pc-bsd will they pickup bsd from windriver, and will they come out with a pc-linux. I would like to see bsd-3g a bsd designed to work entirley on the 3g networks.
Roger Woodworker