PC-BSD 7.1 Galileo - Review

[Mrkvonic]

Hi all,

Something non-Linux for today:

A review and tutorial of the recently released PC-BSD 7.1 Galileo, a BSD-based desktop operating system running KDE, including installation, software & updates, applications, NTFS support, Samba sharing, multimedia support for MP3, Flash and Windows video, and more. Come along.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/pc-bsd.html


Cheers,
Mrk

[Arup]

Good review, maybe they should pick the stable gnome for their Windows manager next time.

[Longboard]

I've been thinking about another go with PCBSD...
So I'll let you know:
I n the past I could never get MPlayer installed and configured right.
Last install the ports system would never install correctly.
:-\
Anyway nothing to lose.

[chronomatic]

I don't like PCBSD's .pbi installer system. Sure, it makes things easy for Windows converts, but it also brings along all the security troubles of Windows' .exe's.

[lodore]

-{ Quote: "I don't like PCBSD's .pbi installer system. Sure, it makes things easy for Windows converts, but it also brings along all the security troubles of Windows' .exe's." }-
I agree i would much rather just have a decent gui front end for all the freebsd Ports.

[Kerodo]

I was anxious to try out this one but when I did, I couldn't even get past the initial loading of the installer CD, it hung up somewhere somehow when it was probing hardware I think. Same thing happened on the previous release if I remember right. So unfortunately, it was a no go for me...

[clansman77]

thanks mrk for the excellent review.was the ntfs support troublefree?.coz last time i tried it i had a hard time getting it to write to ntfs partitions..

[Mrkvonic]

Had no issues ... but that's me ... mr. unique problems.
Mrk

[FastGame]

-{ Quote: "I don't like PCBSD's .pbi installer system. Sure, it makes things easy for Windows converts, but it also brings along all the security troubles of Windows' .exe's." }-

-{ Quote: "I agree i would much rather just have a decent gui front end for all the freebsd Ports." }-

I disagree with you guy's on the PBI system, the PBI's are approved and on the official PC-BSD site. How can that be any more dangerous than Linux deb/rpm from non-official sites ?

I think PBI is better and safer because "It does not integrate with the system installed but wraps itself around the operating system and uses what it needs"

I also agree with Arup on the Gnome desktop.

[Longboard]

-{ Quote: "I agree i would much rather just have a decent gui front end for all the freebsd Ports." }-Yah!
For dodos like me: that would be so good.
Interesting that the BSD core seem to regard this as some sort of sticking point, a filter if you like: our way or no way. :-\
Unless there is some utility I haven't seen yet. ??

[Alphalutra1]

-{ Quote: "I agree i would much rather just have a decent gui front end for all the freebsd Ports." }-
And there is one, located in /usr/ports/sysutils/desktopbsd-tools

Here's the freeports page (website with all the freebsd ports you can install with install notes, commits, and such): http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/desktopbsd-tools/

DesktopBSD is another GUI orientated FreeBSD flavor and does not use PBI's but graphical tools. However, you can install and use them yourself on PC-BSD.

-{ Quote: "Unless there is some utility I haven't seen yet. ??" }-
See above

Cheers,

Alphalutra1