DistroStuff

After an overall miserable experience with DesktopBSD, I've decided to move on to other BSD flavors and see if I can get into any of them. I've decided to look at PC-BSD because at this point I can't really tell what the differences are ...

Fri, 10 Oct 2008

OSNews.com has a positive review of PC-BSD 7 Fibonacci. It concludes with: “I am thoroughly convinced that PC-BSD is the perfect choice for a newcomer to the unix world. It is very straight forward and it requires very little unix ...

Mon, 6 Oct 2008

OSNews.com has a positive review of PC-BSD 7 Fibonacci (http://www.osnews.com/story/20351/Review_PC-BSD_7). It concludes with:I am thoroughly convinced that PC-BSD is the...

Mon, 6 Oct 2008

OSNews: "Being a Linux junkie, I thought it is time to venture into the BSD arena. Recently the PC-BSD team released their latest stable version (PC-BSD 7) code-named Fibonacci Edition."...

Sun, 5 Oct 2008

I have been using Linux and BSD systems on and off for quite a few years and I tried out PC-BSD a while back when it was a new and immature distro. What attracted me to it back then was the fact the the developpers had decided to make ...

Fri, 22 Aug 2008

Fametastic wrote an interesting post today on Here’sa quick excerpt A new beta version was just released, and though I can’t say I have much experience with FreeBSD, or any *BSD for that matter, I was curious enough to try it. ...

Wed, 16 Apr 2008

PC-BSD, a strong contender for the top desktop distribution out there, has once again grown, going from version 1.3 to 1.5 in just under a year. In that time it's grown, prospered, and had it's fair share of growing pains as well. ...

Thu, 10 Apr 2008

I’ve followed the development of PC-BSD with enthusiasm since my first test drive three years ago of version 0.6. I was highly impressed with the developers’ ability to provide a free BSD that was easy to install and even easier to use. ...

Wed, 19 Mar 2008

Conclusion: PC-BSD is a very capable general purpose desktop operating system. It is certainly as capable as any of the major Linux distributions out there. The particular thing that makes it stand out is its novel approach to software ...

Fri, 14 Mar 2008

PC-BSD is a desktop-oriented BSD distribution which ships with a full KDE desktop and many of the packages you might be already used to from desktop Linux. I thought I would review the new 1.5 release of PC-BSD, so, let’s dive in!

Fri, 14 Mar 2008

PC-BSD 1.4, a desktop-centered, FreeBSD based operating system has just been released and is looking to attract attention from the growing throngs of Linux users. But how well does it stack up to popular and easy to use Linux ...

Tue, 16 Oct 2007

Two reviews of PC-BSD 1.4. The first one concludes: ” If you are a new user, there is everything here for you; equally so if you are an experienced techie you can get into the FreeBSD ports tree and compile to your hearts content. ...

Tue, 2 Oct 2007

The first one concludes: " If you are a new user, there is the works here for you; equally so if you are an experienced techie you can get into the FreeBSD ports tree and compile to your hearts text. Two reviews of PC-BSD 1.4. ...

Tue, 2 Oct 2007

PC-BSD 1.4 was released last week and I was quite anxious to test it. I had looked at a couple of earlier versions and I was always quite impressed at the work this small development team was doing. PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD and this ...

Tue, 2 Oct 2007

PC-BSD is fast becoming a highly usable alternative to Second Life on the desktop and the project’s latest release, version 1.4, is the most feature-full desktop FreeBSD ever. But can it stand tall against Second Life? ...

Mon, 1 Oct 2007

PC-BSD is fast becoming a highly usable alternative to Linux on the desktop and the project's latest release, version 1.4, is the most feature-full desktop FreeBSD ever. But can it stand tall against Linux? Read our review to find out. ...

Mon, 1 Oct 2007

Linuxhelp is reviewing PC-BSD: "PC-BSD is turning out to be an excellent alternative to other popular Desktop OSes. After testing and using PC-BSD for some time now, I cannot but admire the sheer amount of work that is put into creating, developing and molding an OS for the lay person albeit with a strong slant towards FreeBSD. The fact that PC-BSD is able to accomplish all the tasks expected by an end user - be it using the Internet for communication, listening to music, watching movies or using it for recreation purposes holds it in good stead as a viable Desktop OS".

Tue, 18 Sep 2007

Clement Lefebvre over at Linux Forums has posted a nice review of PC-BSD 1.0. This review includes many details and screenshots of the installation and usage of PC-BSD. Read it here! Original Source.

Sun, 15 Jul 2007

Linuxhelp is reviewing PC-BSD: "PC-BSD is turning out to be an excellent alternative to other popular Desktop OSes. After testing and using PC-BSD for some time now, I cannot but admire the sheer amount of work that is put into creating, developing and molding an OS for the lay person albeit with a strong slant towards FreeBSD. The fact that PC-BSD is able to accomplish all the tasks expected by an end user - be it using the Internet for communication, listening to music, watching movies or using it for recreation purposes holds it in good stead as a viable Desktop OS".

Sat, 14 Jul 2007

DesktopBSD logo After reading a very not-nice review of DesktopBSD a couple of weeks ago, and in light of the fact that I just adore PC-BSD, it’sa bit strange that I would be reviewing it here. Still the hunger to try out some new and ...

Sat, 7 Jul 2007

24-hour test drive: PC-BSD A different flavor of BSD By Troy Unrau PC-BSD is not a Linux distribution, but rather what could be considered among the first major FreeBSD-based distributions to live outside of the official FreeBSD. ...

Tue, 19 Jun 2007

Linuxhelp is reviewing PC-BSD: "PC-BSD is turning out to be an excellent alternative to other popular Desktop OSes. After testing and using PC-BSD for some time now, I cannot but admire the sheer amount of work that is put into creating, developing and molding an OS for the lay person albeit with a strong slant towards FreeBSD. The fact that PC-BSD is able to accomplish all the tasks expected by an end user - be it using the Internet for communication, listening to music, watching movies or using it for recreation purposes holds it in good stead as a viable Desktop OS".

Tue, 19 Jun 2007

PC-BSD should make an interesting change for two main reasons. Firstly, it uses a BSD kernel, as opposed to the Linux kernel used in distributions such as Debian and Slackware. Secondly, its main method of installing new programs seems ...

Tue, 5 Jun 2007

Linuxhelp is reviewing PC-BSD: "PC-BSD is turning out to be an excellent alternative to other popular Desktop OSes. After testing and using PC-BSD for some time now, I cannot but admire the sheer amount of work that is put into creating, developing and molding an OS for the lay person albeit with a strong slant towards FreeBSD. The fact that PC-BSD is able to accomplish all the tasks expected by an end user - be it using the Internet for communication, listening to music, watching movies or using it for recreation purposes holds it in good stead as a viable Desktop OS".

Mon, 4 Jun 2007

PC-BSD 1.3 [Review] ,----[ Quote ] | The lack of something to match up to YaST or the Mandriva/PCLinuxOS | Control Center means that users would have to resort to the command | line to solve some problems or change some settings, ...

Sat, 2 Jun 2007

Linuxhelp is reviewing PC-BSD: "PC-BSD is turning out to be an excellent alternative to other popular Desktop OSes. After testing and using PC-BSD for some time now, I cannot but admire the sheer amount of work that is put into creating, developing and molding an OS for the lay person albeit with a strong slant towards FreeBSD. The fact that PC-BSD is able to accomplish all the tasks expected by an end user - be it using the Internet for communication, listening to music, watching movies or using it for recreation purposes holds it in good stead as a viable Desktop OS".

Fri, 1 Jun 2007

PC-BSD is turning out to be an excellent alternative to other popular Desktop OSes. After testing and using PC-BSD for some time now, I can't but admire the sheer amount of work that is put into creating, developing and molding an OS ...

Tue, 29 May 2007

This article reviews PC-BSD which is turning out to be a very good desktop solution for end users who want the stability and security of the traditional BSDs at the same time enjoy the ease of use of a modern Linux distribution. ...

Fri, 25 May 2007

Linuxhelp is reviewing PC-BSD: "PC-BSD is turning out to be an excellent alternative to other popular Desktop OSes. After testing and using PC-BSD for some time now, I cannot but admire the sheer amount of work that is put into creating, developing and molding an OS for the lay person albeit with a strong slant towards FreeBSD. The fact that PC-BSD is able to accomplish all the tasks expected by an end user - be it using the Internet for communication, listening to music, watching movies or using it for recreation purposes holds it in good stead as a viable Desktop OS".

Thu, 24 May 2007

PC-BSD is turning out to be an excellent alternative to other desktop operating systems. After testing and using PC-BSD for some time now, I can't but admire the sheer amount of work that is put into creating, developing and molding an ...

Wed, 23 May 2007