[GLLUG] Distro Question

[Philip J. Robar]

On Apr 29, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Thomas Driscoll wrote:

>  I used Freebsd as a desktop for about 5 years and loved it...I miss having FreeBSD as a desktop.

There are two BSD based desktop distributions:

http://www.pcbsd.org/ is being actively developed.

	FreeBSD 8.2 as the base system and KDE 4.5.5 for the Desktop.
	Yet another new packaging system. Design philosophy: Share libraries, who needs em? 

http://www.desktopbsd.net/

	FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 as base system and KDE 3.5.10 for the desktop.
	Packages from the FreeBSD ports collection.

	Their last release was in 2009. Development was supposedly taken up by a new small team, but there haven't been any new releases from them.

BSD as a desktop has a major limitation for many users—there's no native flash support.

My distro?
	Desktop: OS X, the best of all worlds, UNIX® with Apple's UI—commercially supported ZFS coming real soon now™.
	Server: EON/Solaris, industrial strength UNIX® with ZFS.


Phil
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