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List:       freebsd-questions
Subject:    Re: KDE
From:       Aftab Jahan Subedar <jahan () bol-online ! com>
Date:       2010-10-08 20:19:29
Message-ID: AANLkTi=t7wYXRwt6Hr52OVSoXxAps7muXnmXx4NKwvfp () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 10/9/10, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
>
>> I hope it doesn't sound impolite when I mention this, but why not
>> give PC-BSD to novice users? Especially if an "out of the box"
>> experience is needed, PC-BSD is fine, as it brings all possible
>> stuff preinstalled and preconfigured. Still it's a real FreBSD
>> under the hood, so no big "loss".
>>
>
> I don't have any problem with PC-BSD and maybe it's a good solution here.
> It's just different enough in various ways from FreeBSD that I can't support
> it easily.  At least that's been my impression from the few times I've tried
> it.  Also it's had quirky bugs which made it more difficult to use, for
> example the PC-BSD installer didn't display right on my widescreen monitor
> even though my monitor was quite standard.  I had to find and hook up a
> standard 4:3 which then worked(you can also pan in X if you remember the
> keystrokes).  Maybe that's fixed now, but my experience with FreeBSD simply
> makes it easier.
>
> --
> Adam Vande More
>
ok, u all wait till I install one, in da process of downloading.
Thank you all so much, wait till I finish.
-Jahan 10
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