Looking forward to testing PC-BSD which should soon follow. edit:- Talk of the devil:- http://blog.pcbsd.org/2012/01/pc-bsd-9-0-released/
Just installed pc-bsd 9.0 over the weekend. Very simple install. I only wish that they would some day automate changed for working headphones and mic. I
The BSD's have never played well with my hardware and PCBSD is no exception. When one has to jump through hoops just to get a relatively common scanner to work then that OS isn't for me i'm afraid, which is a real shame as PCBSD in most repsects does a stirling job of bringing Freebsd to the desktop.