Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 26th Aug 2008 23:31 UTC, submitted by vijayd81
"Not all user-friendly desktop operating systems are based on Linux; as demonstrated by PC-BSD, it is entirely feasible to turn a "geek" project into a piece of software that can be installed and used by even less technical computer users. Distrowatch talks to Kris Moore, PC-BSD lead developer, about his love affair with FreeBSD and the upcoming PC-BSD 7.0."
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I tried using FreeBSD for desktop, in form of pure FreeBSD, DesktopBSD and PCBSD. They are all great, but, off course, FreeBSD in pure form needs a little extra. PC-BSD seems very polished but I'm not really impressed by the PBI system. Here I'll take the DekstopBSD ports approach to me much more "orthodox". Unfortunatelly, DesktopBSD team is, I gueess, much smaller than PCBSD team and the project is not that dynamic, though DesktopBSD as it is, it's a great OS.
Anyway, FreeBSD and it's variants would be a great Linux alternative for my desktop users if they only have some kind of free (not OSS necesarely) virtualization, in form of VMWare or VirtualBox, because sometimes I just have to run MSOffice products and I can't 100% trust wine for this. And off course, excellent hardware support is a must.