PC-BSD 10.0 is now available
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Yea!!!!!!
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Cool!
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Installed and loving it.
Set it up on a spare 80GB HDD formatted using GPT partitioning, ZFS file system, chose Xfce, and all was good. ATM I'm downloading the source to rebuild the kernel without audio to setup OSSv4. Really and truthfully, PC-BSD is one of the best out-of-the-box ready-to-use BSD distributions out there and it's based on FreeBSD. It's almost like Slackware with a BSD engine underneath the hood chugging away. |
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I did an installation with Cinnamon for the hell of it. It was OK. No fault of PC-BSD; I would have been happier with Xfce, I'm sure. Solid distro, easy intro to the world of BSD. So is GhostBSD, for that matter.
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I'm rebuilding my kernel tomorrow to remove the BSD audio driver and OSSv4 port is going in.
I seriously love how raw BSD feels at times compared to Linux distributions, but it also feels more amalgamated and complete against itself as its a true OS and not just a collection of packages at the core. The cool thing I like is you can pick between PCBSD as a complete install or TrueOS as a minimal install. |
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PC-BSD 10.0.1, is now available.
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Not true, or you chose not to try it? http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pcbsd |
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Very slick indeed. Just installed 10.0 with XFCE in Virtualbox. Love it. :)
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Had to go out for the afternoon, so I have just now installed and started to explore.
So far, I'm very impressed! Things I had to compile and install in Slackware are "built-in" and ready to go in PC-BSD. Easiest install I've ever done. Far easier than ms-windows. I'm probably come across something that changes my mind... :) sooner or later, but so far... as I said, it is very impressive... Installed it to a second hard drive, so it is just a matter of figuring out how to "mount" the Linux drive and moving files over to the BSD drive.... |
Well..... I was very impressed... until I noticed how much memory is uses. If Gkrellm is correct it was using 2 1/2 GIGS OF MEMORY JUST TO RUN WITH THE XFCE D/E!!!!
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^ I noticed it was a RAM-hog when I briefly tried it out. I couldn't really see any justification to use it over my preferred OpenBSD, honestly. If I was going to do a FreeBSD, I'd just go with FreeBSD-proper. Although the GhostBSD folks are doing some nice work, too.
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