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Great but still...
by alpha on Thursday 07/Sep/2006, @10:42

First of all let me say that this is really a great distro. It installed to my laptop and after loading my fixed DSDT (as I need to to with all distros) I had battery status, network monitoring and everything else working (well I haven't tried wireless but nevertheless).

Setting up ADSL/PPPoE also proved to be rather easy, although no GUI was available for this.

All in all this really _much_ better than K/Ubuntu, which I have dropped the day before yesterday, after having huge problems with PPPoE (this came on the background of catastrophic system updates, braindead CPU throttling effectively killing my machine, Kontact crashing on every system startup etc. etc.) As a matter of fact, if they keep this course, PC-BSD and probably DesktopBSD (never seen it live though) will probably be better than any Linux distros in one year.

But now I'll try SUSE 10.1. Sure it's broken, but PC-BSD's PBIs are practically broken all of them. And I really like the _concept_ of PBI, it's just that the are very poorly put together, and vital apps have great defects.

Of course I could just ditch PBI and install from ports, but that's too error prone.

OMG how did I end up writing so much?

Anyway bottomline is that the quality of PBIs needs to be greatly improved, otherwise really good stuff.

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Re: Great but still...
by TBM on Friday 08/Sep/2006, @13:50

"Of course I could just ditch PBI and install from ports, but that's too error prone."

Actually, I find the ports to be the best/most robust method of installing utilities as it does it all for you.
The PBI's are ok for things like KOffice, Gimp, Firefox... The ports are much better for adding shells, server components, and such.

TBM

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