Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th May 2006 20:31 UTC, submitted by Joel Dahl
Linux may soon have a stronger open-source competitor on the desktop if FreeBSD's plans come to fruition. FreeBSD developer Scott Long told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the operating system, descended from the Unix derivative BSD, is "quickly approaching" feature parity with Linux. "Lots of work is going on to make FreeBSD more friendly on the desktop," Long said. "Within the year, we expect to have, or be near, parity with Linux."
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2005-07-06
I don't know how long ago you have run FreeBSD, but I can assure you that for many years, KDE allowed one to setup a basic PPP setup with a modem, by using the supplied kppp application and setup wizard.
As for the PPPoE, thats a different beast, with can be setup via the use of the GNOME networking tool.
The issue is more to do with portage than a FreeBSD issue; its about making sure that those features that are available on GNOME and and KDE are also available on FreeBSD as well, which will require alot of work and patching as well.