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PC-BSD: The Most Beginner Friendly OS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-first-bsd dept.

soniyea writes "OSWeekly.com reviews PC-BSD and considers it the most beginner friendly OS in the market. 'From PC-BSD's roadmap to their default installation, I honestly feel good about where these guys are headed with their take on FreeBSD. This operating system has it all: support both from the professional level as well as that of the community, the ability to install Linux software, thanks to the binary compatibility layer, and of course — speed. Understand for most people, the speed factor is more or less a matter of opinion. But I have found that in some areas, it felt faster at the core level. Maybe I just had too much coffee that day? Either way, I totally recommend PC-BSD for anyone wanting to take a step into the wild side. FreeBSD, it's not just for geeks anymore.'"

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  1. Screw you Netcraft! by GejTOO · · Score: 1, Funny

    It won't die, will it?

    G.

  2. PC-BSOD? by nodnarb1978 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I *know* BSD is quite stable, I've used it in production environments in the past.

    But...am I the only one that sees "BSD" and reads "BSOD"....every time??

    Always nice to see serious efforts to bring *nix to the desktop, though. :)

  3. 6502 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The most beginner friendly assembly language.

    1. Re:6502 by spike1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      6502?

      Rubbish. OK. Most computer users with 6502 based systems were FORCED to resort to assembler because their basic was so abominable (commode 64/vic20). But even the CPU's instruction set wasn't that "easy" or "good" for beginners.

      What with all that zero page nonsense. Limited 8 bit registers. Etc.

      Z80 and MC68000 were by far the nicer cpus.

    2. Re:6502 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, it's only 14 bytes to load a screen as a headeless block: 221,33,0,64,17,0,27,62,255,55,205,86,5,201

      ld ix,16384
      ld de,6912
      ld a,255
      scf
      call 1366
      ret

      (written entirely from memory, and posted anonymously to avoid revealing my sad bastard identity)

  4. The article is a little too quick to praise by insulanus_hailstorm · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article:
    This is the single most flawless installation method for software that I have seen for software since, well, Windows to be completely honest.
    Fine praise. Fine praise, indeed.
  5. Re:It's dead Jim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thank you for your insight, Netcraft.

  6. Next Gen OS by jeriqo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just seen a screenshot, is this a competitor for Windows 95?

    --
    Alexis 'jeriqo' BRET
  7. Re:Benefits of BSD? by mobby_6kl · · Score: 2, Funny

    >what's so great about BSD

    You don't have to deal with the linux fans ;-)

  8. Caffeine by Badfysh · · Score: 3, Funny

    >But I have found that in some areas, it felt faster at the core level. Maybe I just had too much coffee that day?

    Wouldn't it feel slower? Like Fry running around that museum?

    --

    I was conned by an old man in a cloak. It turns out those *were* the droids I was looking for.

  9. Re:Beginner friendly is... by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Funny

    And, why IS installing taken to be a Rosetta Stone, anyway?

    Because in the Windows world it's the single most frequent task. :-)

    --
    Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!