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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."

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  1. Re:BSD v Linux by saleenS281 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well... the kernel is a good place to start.

    Although you do bring up a good point (and I'm sure I'll get modded down for pointing it out) gentoo did a great job of copying freeBSD. I personally think it was a great idea, but I'd still rather be running FBSD. I'm sure gentoo has changed since I last used it, but it was a "bad" copy of FBSD about 2 years ago when I gave it a shot.

  2. Easy to use BSD desktop by ducomputergeek · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Um....I think that already exists: called Macintosh OS X. Nothing against BSD, runs on most of our white box servers, but to me what is the point? OSX has gained a lot of support from OSS land as well as commerical software packages.

    And in the past, I haven't had any problems setting up FreeBSD 5.x with x11 and KDE for GUI desktop features. Hell I even got my old Aureal Vortex 2 card to actually work in BSD.

    Can we label DesktopBSD -1 for Redundant: see OSX?

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