Comments on OSGEEX: Joe Sixpack goes BSD!

@ Manmath Sahu:This is only a weblog. The best pla...

2007-12-06T19:16:00.000+01:00

@ Manmath Sahu:

This is only a weblog. The best place to go, for having your question answered is the PCBSD forum:

http://forums.pcbsd.org/

Cheers ;)

Hi All,Would anybody tell if PC-BSD will work on m...

2007-12-06T19:07:00.000+01:00

Hi All,
Would anybody tell if PC-BSD will work on my compaq presario c702tu notebook? it has intel gma965 graphics card and intel HD audio.
Thanks in advance

actually, that's brilliant. Thank you. I'm going t...

2007-10-27T21:09:00.000+02:00

actually, that's brilliant. Thank you. I'm going to pass that on to a couple of people.

Hi, this is not so related to your page, but it is...

2007-10-25T22:05:00.000+02:00

Hi, this is not so related to your page, but it is the site you asked me 1 month ago about the abs diet. I tried it, worked well. Well here is the site

Now that PCBSD uses FreeBSD 6.2 it has become impo...

2007-10-19T14:22:00.000+02:00

Now that PCBSD uses FreeBSD 6.2 it has become impossible to mount FAT32 hard drived bigger than 128 Gb. Both "-o large" mount option and "MSDOSFS_LARGE" kernel option are unavailible. Also it doesn't correctly recognize nVidia ethernet interface. It uses nfe drivers instead of nve (as it was stated that nfe is working fune for nVidia while original nve has some troubles) but the fun is that nfe is the one that doesn't work. So only after replacing it with nve I managed to fire up my built-in ethernet. PBI installation is, of course, a great thing too but it still has many problems as apps that do not work or have installation issues. When downloading apps from PBIdir remember to browse PCBSD forum for a list of approved apps.

Summarising my PCBSD expirience I can say it's a beautiful, user-friendly and easy to use OS. And in the same time it's just another BSD clone with KDE and lack of qualified support.

That's what PCBSD team should develop further.

That should say, "plus" at the end, not "plug".

2007-10-03T19:30:00.000+02:00

That should say, "plus" at the end, not "plug".

Reading through your article and then looking at t...

2007-10-03T19:21:00.000+02:00

Reading through your article and then looking at the screen shots. The PC-BSD group has done a great job on the installation program. This really is pretty non-geek user friendly.

Comments:
It would be nice to have a short note for non-geeks as to why or why not to have a root account/password and when this should be used.

As for installing apps.

From what you described this is a good --first step-- but needs to made better for non-geeks. There should be a simple and advanced list of apps. This would help them as to which app/apps they should start with.

I know you can't do this is LoseDoze, but being able to select multiple programs at one time and let it run in the back ground would be HUGE plus for this OS. Anything to make it less of a hassle to install apps is a plug.

@ Anonymous, who wrote: "I've used PCBSD 1.2 a yea...

2007-10-03T16:58:00.000+02:00

@ Anonymous, who wrote: "I've used PCBSD 1.2 a year and half..."

Thanks for the positive comment, very interesting indeed ;-)

@ Sandro Rip:

Why are you asking this, is there a difference?

I am a GNU/Linux user for almost a decade and prefer native apps. So in fact I don't have a use for Wine. Since I've got used to the native GNU/Linux apps, of which many are ported to BSD.

Thank you for your comment. It inspired me to write another article: "Why I'm such a Unixnut" :-)

Nice review! Did you install Wine through PBI or F...

2007-10-03T09:54:00.000+02:00

Nice review! Did you install Wine through PBI or FreeBSD ports/packages?

I've used PCBSD 1.2 a year and half, than I had to...

2007-10-03T07:36:00.000+02:00

I've used PCBSD 1.2 a year and half, than I had to switch to another OS, due to some other reasons, but PCBSD has always been my personal favorite. They have great and friendly community, lots of docs and explanations, forum and wiki. Someone before me mentioned CPU scaling isn't implemented ? Just log a bug or feature request - it's gonna be very easy for you to make the update, when available, they are doing frequent updates of the OS. The Update itself is also painless :) I'm planning to wipe out the current Linux, since I don't need it anymore, and install 1.4. The thing I like most about PCBSD is the KDE, combined with the "power to serve" of FreeBSD in the core. Previously, I had 3 months of uptime on a PC, running AMP, Perl, CGI, LDAP, with no single crash of the system :) My recommendation : try it and you won't regret it, you'll become huge fan, thus not being scared anymore of BSD legends.

i'm bummed that cpu scaling isn't implemented auto...

2007-10-02T03:00:00.000+02:00

i'm bummed that cpu scaling isn't implemented automatically. This is critical for us laptoppers. Who wants to hear the fans whirring away (and sucking up electricity) when PCBSD is just sitting idle?

@ anonymous 12:39:00[quote]hmmm... I wonder how it...

2007-10-01T12:47:00.000+02:00

@ anonymous 12:39:00

[quote]hmmm... I wonder how it does with wireless detection on laptops?!?[/quote]

This question has been answered on the wiki and forum of:

http://www.pcbsd.org

Check it out!

@ anonymous 11:03:00:[quote]what is your theme?[/q...

2007-10-01T12:45:00.000+02:00

@ anonymous 11:03:00:

[quote]what is your theme?[/quote]

I will edit the article and provide the required link on bottom of it. Just a few minutes please :-)

hmmm... I wonder how it does with wireless detecti...

2007-10-01T12:39:00.000+02:00

hmmm... I wonder how it does with wireless detection on laptops?!?

what is your theme?

2007-10-01T11:03:00.000+02:00

what is your theme?

Thank you for correcting my mistake. I've changed ...

2007-10-01T09:45:00.000+02:00

Thank you for correcting my mistake. I've changed it by now ;)

Oh, PC-BSD 1.4 is based on FreeBSD 6.2, not 6.1 :)...

2007-10-01T08:41:00.000+02:00

Oh, PC-BSD 1.4 is based on FreeBSD 6.2, not 6.1 :)