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Again, no clue on PC-BSD, but I know in OpenBSD and Linux you can build from source. Don't know how many megabytes of sources you'll have to download, though.
Favourite BSD? I would have to say GhostBSD. Although it is not yet a finished product, it has been my best experience with BSD.
I tried to install FreeBSD at least ten times, the last four or five with a printed copy of the installation instructions beside the computer, but I have never been able to install a working system. Even though I am a Linux user, I am obviously not enough of a computer geek to use FreeBSD.
In the past, I could not get the internet connection working with PCBSD. The system said the connection was active, but it was not. (And I have no difficulty configuring a static IP address with GNU-Linux.) I hate KDE, so I could not give PCBSD a fair assessment without being able to try it with a different DE. Now that it can be installed with a choice of DEs, I just tried out the LXDE version. I do not want to bash PCBSD, so I shall only say it was a regrettable experience.
If the few bugs that GhostBSD has can be worked out, it will be a great system. It comes much closer to the goal of creating a user-friendly BSD than PCBSD does. I shall definitely keep track of its progress.
Favourite BSD? I would have to say GhostBSD. Although it is not yet a finished product, it has been my best experience with BSD.
I tried to install FreeBSD at least ten times, the last four or five with a printed copy of the installation instructions beside the computer, but I have never been able to install a working system. Even though I am a Linux user, I am obviously not enough of a computer geek to use FreeBSD.
In the past, I could not get the internet connection working with PCBSD. The system said the connection was active, but it was not. (And I have no difficulty configuring a static IP address with GNU-Linux.) I hate KDE, so I could not give PCBSD a fair assessment without being able to try it with a different DE. Now that it can be installed with a choice of DEs, I just tried out the LXDE version. I do not want to bash PCBSD, so I shall only say it was a regrettable experience.
If the few bugs that GhostBSD has can be worked out, it will be a great system. It comes much closer to the goal of creating a user-friendly BSD than PCBSD does. I shall definitely keep track of its progress.
Hello,
I am happy to hear that you like GhostBSD. Do not despair. When I started with the BSDs (FreeBSD 5.x) I also had great difficulty understanding how the system worked. Keep tinkering away on your BSD system and read, read, read. You will get it.
I have made a jump now I have just tried installing OpenBSD in a vbox to check how much I liked it and if was to time consuming as an Desktop distro. And I can only say if my next laptop or Desktop ain't going to be a Mac it is going to be a computer with OpenBSD it is rock solid, easy to setup (I compare with freeBSD) and I just fucking works
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Favourite BSD?
Probably GhostBSD as it is the simplest way to get FreeBSD up & running;
however, since FreeBSD 9.0 has arrived, it isn't so hard to get going as it used to be.
I also like NetBSD, although I have never actually 'used' it.
So far OpenBSD because it just works out of the box. Almost all my experience is Slackware Linux. Am experimenting with NetBSD 5.1 (not the latest). Can't get an Ethernet connection - message is 'no carrier'. Someone posted a great tutorial about how to get Xfce4 to work in OpenBSD. I did and it works (except no flash player).
^ Cool. How is it different from FreeBSD for starting? Could you share your experiences please?
I just downloaded it, would love to use it under VM to see the very first time what's all the security paranoia fuss about.
Regards.
Last edited by PrinceCruise; 05-03-2012 at 06:14 PM.
Woo Hoo! OpenBSD 5.1 was released yesterday.
Just completed an install of OpenBSD 5.1 this morning.
Awesome!
Hello Hitest,
Would love to hear if this was a bare bone install or as a virtual machine.
As I tried installing OpenBSD 5.1 in VirtualBox 4.1.8(host-Slackware 13.37)and ran into the infamous segmentation fault, which I recovered through assigning the vm size at once, not dynamically.
However, after that while partitioning some weird looking warning/error cropped up, ignoring which causes hang to the installer. Let me know if you saw something like this while BSD'ing.
I can create a new thread, if you suggest.
Would love to hear if this was a bare bone install or as a virtual machine.
As I tried installing OpenBSD 5.1 in VirtualBox 4.1.8(host-Slackware 13.37)and ran into the infamous segmentation fault, which I recovered through assigning the vm size at once, not dynamically.
However, after that while partitioning some weird looking warning/error cropped up, ignoring which causes hang to the installer. Let me know if you saw something like this while BSD'ing.
I can create a new thread, if you suggest.
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