Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Aug 2005 17:36 UTC, submitted by anonymous
It seems that PC-BSD has set a trend. "DesktopBSD aims at being a stable and powerful operating system for desktop users. DesktopBSD combines the stability of FreeBSD, the usability and functionality of KDE and the simplicity of specially developed software to provide a system that's easy to use and install." How this new BSD distribution stacks up against PC-BSD remains to be seen.
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2005-06-29
If I recall correctly this was discussed on a forum I once visited, and many BSD developers are primarily concerned with Server or Power user installs, and have no time / man-power in order to undertake making BSD's easier for the average newb, so for me these distro's are a great idea.
I will happily sit there infront of a command-line for hours on end, compiling and configuring my OS, I do this with Gentoo, and on occasion FreeBSD, but if I am honest I'm as lazy as the next guy and it's great to have solutions available where everything is pre-configured and working, and requires minimal tweaking and configuration to work.