Subj : New BSD distribution...
To   : dove.unix
From : Tracker1
Date : Sat Jul 30 2005 04:28 pm

This is the single nicest starting point I've ever had the pleasure of working
with... http://www.pcbsd.org/

It's a simple/straight-forward installation, no live-cd version (sorry), you
start off with a KDE desktop setup, and X, that's about it.. there's very few
packages installed to start with..

It has a unique installer/packager system that is really nice (though only
very few packages in this format so far)... you also can fallback to the ports
system, as the base os is FreeBSD-5.x ... Other than OS-X this is about the
nicest setup process I've seen... they're also working on a Kamel (control
panel) interface, that aims to be as straight forward as OS-X's, with an
installer system akin to many windows installers, with a simple uninstall
ability...

Check out the screenshots at the site, and may want to try it out.. have it on
a machine here, but it had no sound card, and is only an athlon@600... may try
it under vmware, or virtual-pc on my faster desktop, as kde3 isn't done
justice on the hardware in question....

I wish this project all the best, as it's the most straight forward *nix
installation I've gone through, it's bsd based and can use all the freebsd
ports (including linux compatability layer)... with this as a base point, I
can only see this project gaining *MUCH* more support than many other
distributions (linux or bsd)... note: this is a DESKTOP distribution, so
wouldn't necessarily suggest it for server use, though it is really nice.

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