PC-BSD 7.1 Galileo - Review

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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...

 

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..

 

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

 

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.

 

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. ??

 

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.

See above

Cheers,

Alphalutra1