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Interview With the PC-BSD Team

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the user-friendly-depends-so-much-on-the-user dept.

GeekyBodhi writes "FOSSEngineer.com has an interview with a couple of guys from the PC-BSD development team after the distro recently released their first stable version 1.0. PC-BSD is built on top of FreeBSD and aims to dumb down installation and daily usage, enabling a non-technical user to run it as his primary desktop. The guys talk about their pre-release journey, features unique to PC-BSD and why a minimal installation system is a good thing."

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  1. Because... by muddyblooz · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We ain't TOUCHING sysinstall..."

  2. Re:Nuff said. by Dis*abstraction · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not taking that bet, because I can guess how much your time is worth. Apple-haters tend to be failures at life.

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  3. Re:Dumbed down = minimal install? by (pvb)charon · · Score: 3, Funny

    > I'm a programmer.
    > (...) but honestly, I don't want to compile,
    I sense some trouble there...
    charon

  4. Re:Not just Joe Sixpack by Arker · · Score: 2, Funny

    I consider myself well-educated with computers but I've never taken the time and effort to quit Windows for Linux. If it's really easy, I'd probably do it.

    I consider myself a brain surgeon, but I've never actually bothered to hold a scalpel. If it were really easy, I probably would though.

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