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PCBSD - I'm fairly impressed
WMD:
Ok, I wasn't able to do very much because I ran out of HD space. :( However, I browsed through the desktop, and was able to try one of those PBI files.
The verdict? Brilliance. I did run into the same resoltion problem as toadlife (except with 800x600 max, because I chose that for the installer), and upon installing Opera it didn't recognize any but a few ugly fonts that made me download Firefox (upon which I ran out of space).
But this is great stuff. I should try it on a real computer sometime.
toadlife:
Wow. I installed "update3" for Rc1 and the mouse stopped working! That's one nasty bug!
If anyone decides to try this, you should look at this thread . I posted a 'fix' the bug.
Aloone_Jonez:
What are the minimum system requirements?
Is BSD lighter/heavier than Linux?
cymon:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---What are the minimum system requirements?
Is BSD lighter/heavier than Linux?
--- End quote ---
I would assume, seeing as how Linux is just a kernel. But once again, it all depends. You can't really compare it as a whole, just because it depends on the purpose of the distro. One of those single floppy distros would be small, obviously, but the newbie friendly distros would be pretty heavy, with all that GUI crap. Something like Debian would be in the middle. Though I've got a really old PII-300 just waiting for an OS. This sounds a bit heavy, but I think I'll try FreeBSD.
piratePenguin:
I wouldn't think there'd be a huge difference performance wise. They both (FreeBSD and GNU/Linux) have excellent kernels, with excellent memory management (I think FreeBSD actually has better memory management than Linux, but only for rarely used stuff that the Linux dev's have yet to bother copying (and it kicks ass that they can copy, from eachother (i.e. share)). That's according to a guy on ##freebsd on freenode, and it's likely not the whole story) and excellent pre-emption stuff (although, I believe Linux to be better there (pre-empting system calls, or something), but I dunno, and I don't think it'd matter too-much overall). Then, they'd be running (mostly) the same user-mode applications and desktop enviornments. So I doubt there'd be a huge difference between the two.
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