any of you run PC-BSD? Thinking of toying with it. I like that the software can be downloaded and installed much like with .deb packages like Debian. Any thoughts from those that run it?
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Yup. It is quite good!
Can you use something other than KDE with it? I'm not really a fan of KDE in the default configuration for the menus, etc. Does it still use the same filesystem structure? /, /home etc? I would assume it does...
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It comes by default with KDE. You can use GNOME or XFCE (the latter is my preference) as well. Yes, uses the traditional BSD filesystem structure.
It's been a while, but I ran it years ago when it first came out. A good solid KDE distro. I left to Kubuntu for better app and flash support. Lately I spend most of my time on ChromeOs and webOS. I did try Unity for a while and was pretty happy with it, but my desktop died last week.
Any BSD will have worse hardware support for the most part; and things Flash or other software that has no specific BSD port will have to be run via a Linux emulation layer, which may affect performance a bit. (I thought I'd read something recently about Gnome ditching BSD support.)
As far as I understand it, the .pbi installation files for PC-BSD work like Mac's .app directories: all of the requisite dependencies and libraries are included in the install directory. This equates to much more disk usage for applications but mitigates against conflicts. .deb packages do *not* have that capacity. Debian-based package managers usually handle dependencies extremely well, though.
As far as I understand it, the .pbi installation files for PC-BSD work like Mac's .app directories: all of the requisite dependencies and libraries are included in the install directory. This equates to much more disk usage for applications but mitigates against conflicts. .deb packages do *not* have that capacity. Debian-based package managers usually handle dependencies extremely well, though.
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Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more
Any BSD will have worse hardware support for the most part; and things Flash or other software that has no specific BSD port will have to be run via a Linux emulation layer, which may affect performance a bit. (I thought I'd read something recently about Gnome ditching BSD support.)
As far as I understand it, the .pbi installation files for PC-BSD work like Mac's .app directories: all of the requisite dependencies and libraries are included in the install directory. This equates to much more disk usage for applications but mitigates against conflicts. .deb packages do *not* have that capacity. Debian-based package managers usually handle dependencies extremely well, though.
Flash: use Chrome. That's what I use.
All hardware on my most recent Netbook install was supported out of the box with BSD.
Any BSD will have worse hardware support for the most part; and things Flash or other software that has no specific BSD port will have to be run via a Linux emulation layer, which may affect performance a bit. (I thought I'd read something recently about Gnome ditching BSD support.)
As far as I understand it, the .pbi installation files for PC-BSD work like Mac's .app directories: all of the requisite dependencies and libraries are included in the install directory. This equates to much more disk usage for applications but mitigates against conflicts. .deb packages do *not* have that capacity. Debian-based package managers usually handle dependencies extremely well, though.
Flash: use Chrome. That's what I use.
All hardware on my most recent Netbook install was supported out of the box with BSD.
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