PC-BSD achieved a milestone recently with the release of their first stable version, 1.0, as reported by OSNews earlier. Two members of the PC-BSD team, founder and developer, Kris Moore, and language co-ordinator and contributor Charles-Andre Landemaine, have been interviewed for this release.
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.
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.
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…
Cause we all know most grandmas install windows themselves
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