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Mon, 2005-09-05 18:55
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Ashley wrote:
...You know you're a geek when... :-P You have two many keyboards if there's more than one, I fear.
I've got a full size keyboard connected to my laptop when I'm working at home. So the laptop can be on top of something so the screen is at a healthy height. Everyone who has only a laptop and has to use it a lot will do that.
But I admit, I'm a geek. Otherwise my keyboard wouldn't be an old IBM model M.
And I know what BSD is... GEEK!!!
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I haven't traveled the BSD lane much, but I've gave PCBSD a brief try. It is basically a FreeBSD wrapped into a nice user friendly skin. It has a pretty easy to use installer (as easy as the likes of Mandriva installer) and is therefore a good entry point for those who want to try FBSD.
I chose to stick with GNU/Linux for an indefinite time though. I wouldn't mind trying some instance of FBSD at some point, but for every day use GNU/Linux is perfect as it has the biggest community, biggest pool of software, greatest support and is easier to find whatever fits me the most. :-)
Both are great though and I absolutely have no objections to FBSD, even for the fact it's not GPL, just someone doesn't think something.. ;-)
Thanks
Daniel
from the PCBSD homepage:
...we believe the PC-BSD must be as slimmed down as possible, and should be clean upon install, like other popular OS's. An operating system should be just that, an operating system, upon which users can load and unload the software of their choice. For this reason KDE was chosen as the default desktop.
Oh man I almost spat tea into my keyboards. KDE slimmed down?
Apart from that, good idea to make a user friendly BSD.
tbuitenh wrote:
Oh man I almost spat tea into my keyboards. KDE slimmed down?
Well, maybe it's not really slimmed down, but I still think it's a good choice. KDE is user friendly. :-)
tbuitenh wrote:
Oh man I almost spat tea into my keyboards. KDE slimmed down?
...You know you're a geek when... :-P You have two many keyboards if there's more than one, I fear.
I chose to run FreeBSD on my server at one point, although no matter how hard I'd try, the documentation would manage to lead me astray. Things would just break all over the place for me, so I quickly gave up on that idea. I'd give it a try again later though.