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Reki
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Informative thread but I think we should scale down the images. It's for those who are on smaller displays and have bandwidth problems.
Robby
Long time nixers
I tried GhostBSD but it just failed to boot correctly and that was before I found and tried FreeBSD. I may try NetBSD on my netbook when I get round to buying it. I'm currently trying to get FreeBSD working on a 95' system, nice high quality post mate.
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
OpenBSD is really awesome. Too bad I rely on my closed source Nvidia drivers.
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
Yes, but not the latest like I want. OpenBSD is always my option on hardware without a proper graphics card.
Lith
Long time nixers
Isn't FreeBSD the same as PC-BSD just with a gui ?
Robby
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(23-12-2012, 04:07 PM)Lith Wrote: Isn't FreeBSD the same as PC-BSD just with a gui ?

I haven't looked into it, I'm not sure if PC-BSD uses all the packages and ports available to FreeBSD. I think it auto configures specific things and whatnot you'd have to do manually in FreeBSD. Can't speak from experience so don't take it to heart.
Lith
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Well i've just been 'scouting' the interwebz and they are saying 'PC-BSD is FREEBSD just with a GUI which is aimed at desktops and to be more friendly, i might actually give this a go on one of my laptops/
jobss
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I read on Phoronix, but cannot find the article anymore, but I thought I saw that this developer ported Ubuntu Touch to BSD for tablets. I am not sure tho as whether or not that is correct, as I said I can't find the article.
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Mafia
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Has anyone tried Debian/kFreeBSD?
Seems kinda cool.
jmbi
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(28-08-2013, 04:41 PM)Mafia Wrote: Has anyone tried Debian/kFreeBSD?
Seems kinda cool.

I have not, I would rather just use ArchBSD. But it seems like Debian/kFreeBSD has a wider user base, so I might give it a shot.
nrmc.dubz
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The Debian-Developers say that Debian/kFreeBSD is not a BSD Distribution, it should be a GNU-Distribution.

But ArchBSD is on my list for Systems to try in the next time.
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shtols
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Quote:The Debian-Developers say that Debian/kFreeBSD is not a BSD Distribution, it should be a GNU-Distribution.
FreeBSD-kernel, GNU/Linux-userland .. so even if calling it a distribution of BSD is wrong, calling it a GNU distribution is even worse in my eyes.
nrmc.dubz
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shtols Wrote:calling it a GNU distribution is even worse in my eyes.
But if they say it is a GNU-Distribution… They're know best what they do

IMHO you are right, but why they should call it GNU-Distribution, if it is not?
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shtols
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Quote:But if they say it is a GNU-Distribution… They're know best what they do
The developers don't always know it the best, especially when it comes to such 'politicized' topics.
Quote:It's not one or the other. It's a hybrid distribution.
Ack.
jobss
Long time nixers
Here is a new one I just heard about called MirOS. Which does not have Mir as its display manager, its name had to do with Mirports (now depreciated) and is a fork of Openbsd.

Here is a link to their about page, and down the way a little bit it talks about the changes they made from Openbsd.

https://www.mirbsd.org/about.htm
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