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Hey FOSS guys. FreeBSD has been often neglected in the forum. Although all the Mactards keep on blabbering about their Mac OS X, they forget one thing that Mac OS X is nothing without FreeBSD. So, I urge you all to give a try to FreeBSD or PC-BSD. And, if you guys are familiar with our beloved Arch Linux, then you will feel right at home. FreeBSD uses the same /etc/rc.conf file for managing the system. Everything is controlled from there although you can do it graphically too but Terminal is recommended. FreeBSD 9.0 was released few days back. This is a perfect OS for servers or power users although it can be installed as a desktop OS too. But still, I recommend PC-BSD to the casual desktop user.
The FreeBSD developers have dedicated the 9.0 release to dmr aka Dennis Ritchie
Here's the official quote from them :-
Quoting from the official Wikipedia article :-
PC-BSD supports
GNOME
*wiki.pcbsd.org/images/1/1e/Gnome1.png
KDE
*wiki.pcbsd.org/images/9/90/Kde.png
LXDE
*wiki.pcbsd.org/images/3/36/Lxde1.png
XFCE
*wiki.pcbsd.org/images/5/5e/Xfce2.png
& other desktop environments. I've installed PCBSD on my spare 100 GB partition & will be posting a review soon.
So, give either of these great, great distributions a try. Just make sure that it will install only on a PRIMARY PARTITION
Links :-
The FreeBSD Project
PC-BSD
The excellent PCBSD handbook - PC-BSD Users Handbook - PC-BSD Wiki
P.S. :- After the installation of PC-BSD you may not get any sound from the operating system. Their is a workaround.
1. Open a terminal
2. Become super user
3. Navigate to cd /boot/
4. nano loader.conf
5. then paste this
The FreeBSD developers have dedicated the 9.0 release to dmr aka Dennis Ritchie
Here's the official quote from them :-
The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIX[tm] operating system. It is on the foundation laid by the work of visionaries like Dennis that software like the FreeBSD operating system came to be. The fact that his work of so many years ago continues to influence new design decisions to this very day speaks for the brilliant engineer that he was.
May he rest in peace.
Quoting from the official Wikipedia article :-
FreeBSD is a complete operating system. The kernel, device drivers, and all of the userland utilities, such as the shell, are held in the same source code revision tracking tree. (This is in contrast to Linux distributions, for which the kernel, userland utilities, and applications are developed separately, and then packaged together in various ways by others.) Third-party application software may be installed using various software installation systems, the two most common being source installation and package installation, both of which use the FreeBSD Ports system.
FreeBSD has been characterized as "the unknown giant among free operating systems" and is widely regarded as reliable and robust. In a Netcraft survey published 1 March 2011, the top three most reliable Web hosting company sites for the month of February 2011 (the most recent month for which figures are available as of March 2011) were all found to be running FreeBSD on their servers.[7]
PC-BSD supports
GNOME
*wiki.pcbsd.org/images/1/1e/Gnome1.png
KDE
*wiki.pcbsd.org/images/9/90/Kde.png
LXDE
*wiki.pcbsd.org/images/3/36/Lxde1.png
XFCE
*wiki.pcbsd.org/images/5/5e/Xfce2.png
& other desktop environments. I've installed PCBSD on my spare 100 GB partition & will be posting a review soon.
So, give either of these great, great distributions a try. Just make sure that it will install only on a PRIMARY PARTITION
Links :-
The FreeBSD Project
PC-BSD
The excellent PCBSD handbook - PC-BSD Users Handbook - PC-BSD Wiki
P.S. :- After the installation of PC-BSD you may not get any sound from the operating system. Their is a workaround.
1. Open a terminal
2. Become super user
3. Navigate to cd /boot/
4. nano loader.conf
5. then paste this
# Enable the sound
snd_hda_load="YES"
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