http://www.osnews.com/story/14565/Interview_Kris_Moore_Charles-Andre_Landemaine_of_PC-BSD Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:28:07 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?122801 http://www.osnews.com/thread?122801 Pretty Installer: CHECK!
Pretty Icons: CHECK!
KDE and/or GNOME: CHECK!
Rudimentary Hardware Detection with pretty icons: CHECK!
A couple "Wizards" for good measure that will only likely work on one distro without recompiling: CHECK!

Now BSD can compete with OS X and Windows in the desktop market! We all know that pretty installers and icons are the only things missing from *nix to make it Grandma friendly . . .

They've hit a goldmine here folks; if hobbyist OS's across the internet discover the secret checklist we'll have easy friendly Desktop OS's cropping up willy-nilly everywhere.

It's like putting lipstick on a pig. Tue, 09 May 2006 21:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Fuji257) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?122871 http://www.osnews.com/thread?122871 Agree. This is exactly what GNU/Linux and *BSD were missing: Ease of use. Shouldn't take a long time now to be widely adopted. Maybe 2-3 years to have a 10% usage. Tue, 09 May 2006 23:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Joe User) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?122879 http://www.osnews.com/thread?122879 BSD can compete with OSX and Windows are you kiding me?

If you cant beat the software of OSX and Windows ,BSB and Linux never can... Wed, 10 May 2006 00:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CVDpr) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?123069 http://www.osnews.com/thread?123069 Cause we all know most grandmas install windows themselves Wed, 10 May 2006 17:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tweek) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?123330 http://www.osnews.com/thread?123330 Too bad they didn't wait for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE for their 1.0... not that you can't upgrade. They're not purposely synch-ing their releases with fbsd version minus five are they? I still have some apprehensions with .pbi. But I haven't really tested it much. I guess maybe I have just been using ports since, well, FreeBSD.Edited 2006-05-11 02:42 Thu, 11 May 2006 02:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kill) Comments