OSNews > Thread > "RE: A good read. Time for some rambling." by Almafeta

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"We're now more than a decade later than the moment when I judged the open source to have gained a decisive momentum - 1996-1997, when Slackware was the reference, Red Hat was 'the other choice', KDE and GNOME were just emerging, Walnut Creek was selling CD-ROMs, and SunSITE mirrors were the home of most of the relevant software. The worst thing that happened was that Yggdrasil Linux died. But the Earth kept spinning..." Read the rest of the editorial at TheJemReport.

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RE: A good read. Time for some rambling.

by Almafeta on Mon 16th Apr 2007 00:01 UTC in reply to "A good read. Time for some rambling."

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2007-02-22

Honestly, FreeBSD is VERY simple, it may not look it to the newest user at first as it is different.

I've wondered why BSD doesn't have a user-friendly version similar to Ubuntu. Although it has its flaws, FreeBSD's probably in the top two or three OSs out there -- but unfortunately, only from a technical standpoint, not an usability or support standpoint.

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RE[2]: A good read. Time for some rambling.

by notamisfit on Mon 16th Apr 2007 00:04 in reply to "RE: A good read. Time for some rambling."

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2006-11-04

Ever try PC-BSD or DesktopBSD? Me neither, but supposedly they're pretty cool for people who are into that whole "user-friendly" thing. Not saying FreeBSD itself isn't user-friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are.

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RE[2]: A good read. Time for some rambling.

by Oliver on Mon 16th Apr 2007 00:38 in reply to "RE: A good read. Time for some rambling."

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2006-07-15

If you want couture maybe, but some people do know what real usability and reliability is. The term "desktop" and "user-friendly" is marketing crap.

>I've wondered why BSD doesn't have a user-friendly version similar to Ubuntu.

Because there is lot of knowledge within *BSD community. PCBSD and DesktopBSD are easy versions of FreeBSD for the beginner. But nobody at these systems is found of Ubuntu - you'll never see this at *BSD.
Maybe sometime *BSD will get a noisy millionaire too, who is found of building his very own fork to bypass the spirit of open-source or community at all. But I do think this will never happen, the force is strong within *BSD people :o)

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