BTW, deployed the PC-BSD system to my parents weekend before last.
An article about PC-BSD came up on /. and inspired me to mention it. Here's my response about PC-BSD:
I just gave a PC-BSD machine to my parents.
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by pecosdave (536896) on Tuesday May 30, @08:18PM (#15432455)
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My parents have had my old K6-233 for YEARS running Windows 95. It still worked fine for what they do believe it or not. Came across some spare hardware, a Duron 800 with 512MB of RAM, figured it was time they had an upgrade. I put a PC-BSD pre 1.0 on it, believe it was RC2 had it installed here at the house forever, finally deployed it to them. Dad loves it, mom says he never gets off of it. Of course all they do with it is play Pysol, SameGame, and FrozenBubble. UT2k4 and Armagetron are installed on it,but those were more of stress test for my own testing more than anything and wont be used by them. Overall I loved it. I like PC-BSDs single program installers, they're as easy if not easier than using Windows installers, but I tend to use the ports system instead. If you're interested in my adventures in PC-BSD land here's a link.
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I just gave a PC-BSD machine to my parents.
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by pecosdave (536896) on Tuesday May 30, @08:18PM (#15432455)
(http://profiles.yahoo.com/pecosdave | Last Journal: Thursday June 26, @01:09PM)
My parents have had my old K6-233 for YEARS running Windows 95. It still worked fine for what they do believe it or not. Came across some spare hardware, a Duron 800 with 512MB of RAM, figured it was time they had an upgrade. I put a PC-BSD pre 1.0 on it, believe it was RC2 had it installed here at the house forever, finally deployed it to them. Dad loves it, mom says he never gets off of it. Of course all they do with it is play Pysol, SameGame, and FrozenBubble. UT2k4 and Armagetron are installed on it,but those were more of stress test for my own testing more than anything and wont be used by them. Overall I loved it. I like PC-BSDs single program installers, they're as easy if not easier than using Windows installers, but I tend to use the ports system instead. If you're interested in my adventures in PC-BSD land here's a link.
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Fan of my freak