• PC-BSD 10.0 Joule review - Troublesome
• Updated: April 3, 2014

• Conclusion 

   

    I would like to be able to say, this UNIX-like system rocks.
• I find it difficult to do that
• aggressive disk-eater installer
• history of  hardware compatibility issues
• lack of live edition that prevented me from testing on a real system
• applications woes and crashes, printing problems, sub-stellar performance
• Overall, just an average offering, with none of the Linux familiarity.
• You may argue super-advanced features under the hood
• for the common user, there's really no point
• bother with all these obstacles and shortcomings, when they can have a simple Linux distro
• Grade: 6/10

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  First Impressions of PC-BSD
• 2005-05-02
• graphical installer
• PC-BSD is a new FreeBSD 5.3 distribution
• KDE 3.4
• how nice it is to be able to switch to a brand new platform
• still use my favorite desktop and applications
• mind-blowing!
• worth downloading? It sure is.
• I guess it is one of the first, if not the only graphical installer for FreeBSD
• simple and effective
• developers did their homework
• Uri Sharf is the editor and founder of Linmagazine

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• My 10 Minute Experience With PC-BSD 10.0
• 28 January 2014
• 10.0-RC5
• FreeBSD 10 has many exciting features and improvements
• reasons for liking to run tests from PC-BSD
• desktop-friendly
• all around feels more polished when running the desktop
• straightforward graphical installer that takes not much time
• saves precious time
• This Haswell system doesn't want to run PC-BSD 10 it seems
• not easy to VT switch from the setup screen to better diagnose the problem
• KMS drivers currently break the console
• Only a few minutes were spent with this issue before abandoning

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• Mastodon
• technical content
• high-quality
• dialog with the community

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• Once VPP can build on VPP