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24-hour Test Drive of PC-BSD

Posted by Zonk on from the might-get-a-few-reluctant-IT-folks-on-board dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica has a concise introduction to PC-BSD, a FreeBSD derivative that emphasizes ease of use and aims to convert Windows users. The review describes the installation process, articulates the advantages of PC-BSD,and reveal some of the challenges that the reviewer faced along the way. From the article: 'In the end, I would suggest this distribution to new users provided they had someone to call in case of a driver malfunction during installation. I would also recommend PC-BSD to seasoned Unix users that have never tried using FreeBSD before and would prefer a shallower learning curve before getting down to business.'"

4 of 285 comments (clear)

  1. Am I the only one.. by WarwickRyan · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..who read that as 24hrs of Blue Screen of Death testing? :(

  2. "a FreeBSD derivative that emphasizes ease of use" by skeevy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't that a Mac?

    Flame On!

  3. Re:Do we really need this? by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think your computer is broken.

    --
    SJW n. One who posts facts.
  4. userfriendly? by mixenmaxen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was able to boot into safe mode, log in as root, remount the filesystem as read-write, and try to edit my xorg.conf file. In safe mode, I found that something was wrong with the line terminations when using vi, so I had to use less to view the files and then construct a sed substitution to change the video driver from "nv" to "vesa." Upon reboot, everything worked swimmingly.


    Sounds terribly userfriendly, even my mother would have no trouble installing this.

    wait...