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Another Step Towards BSD on the Desktop

Posted by timothy on from the happy-leenux-world dept.

linuxbeta writes "DesktopBSD is the latest easy to install BSD aimed squarely at the desktop. Installation screen shots. From their site: 'DesktopBSD aims at being a stable and powerful operating system for desktop users. DesktopBSD combines the stability of FreeBSD, the usability and functionality of KDE and the simplicity of specially developed software to provide a system that's easy to use and install.' DesktopBSD joins the ranks of PC-BSD and FreeSBIE."

3 of 536 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Funny installation steps by vga_init · · Score: 4, Informative
    It's great how the fancy graphical installation screen crashes back to an ugly terminal font in Screen10.

    That's the bootloader, you nut. Even Fedora Core's bootloader uses that "ugly terminal font," just with different colors. Windows NT/2000/XP's bootloader looks like that too (and if you push the right buttons while booting your Mac, you'll get (you guessed it) a text-mode command prompt/boot loader (ie openfirmware). As with OpenFirmware, the FreeBSD bootloader can be configured silent so as not to display that menu). Sheesh. We give you KDE and you give us this hogwash about our installer. >:(

  2. Re:BSD v Linux by rbullo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here you go.

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    OH NOES!!! IT APPEARS YUO DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY FOR DIS HERE PIZZA! WAHT EVER ARE YOU GOING TO DO!?!?
  3. Re:BSD v Linux by JonnyCalcutta · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are missing the point. Linux is a kernel and each distro is a Linux based OS. FreeBSD is _not_ a kernel - it is a full operating system. DesktopBSD is not just the FreeBSD 'kernel', with a 'graphical installer' and a 'gui'. It is the full FreeBSD OS with a few extra desktop-friendly tools added (I'm not judging it, just stating what it is).