pcbsd.org— The long awaited version 1.3 of PC-BSD just hit the net today. Included are the latest updates to KDE 3.5.5, along with a new HAL media backend, "pf" firewall support and more!
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I tried a previous version. It worked well. Recognized all hardware on a 5 year old laptop. I dropped it though since I had only 64mb of ram. It seems I only hear positive things about PC-BSD as it evolves. Maybe time to try PC-BSD again, betting bored with Fedora Core.
10x for the infos!I downloades the OS and tried to installed it, but i quited, because it did not recognise my partitions at install (i have 1 ntfs, 1 fat32, 1 ext3, 1 etx2, 1 swap. it recognised one partition, but i don't know what, because PC-BSD listed it as being fat, ntfs, linux native and another one... :( ) AND it did not initialise my mouse. It did not detect it. I had the same problem on Zeta 1.21 (BeOS based OS) and the mouse did not work even after the installation succceded.So, unless anyone knows hot to make PC-BSD recognise a PS2 mouse (there is nothing special about it, i think it's the port on the mainboard, an ASRock) i won't be installing this OS :((((((((Does anyone know what is to be done?
I've liked messing around with PC-BSD over the last couple of years... I think this time around it's going to be used for Open Office, Scribus and Inkscape to crank out .PDF's (brochures, presentations, etc.) for a friend's home business. I relish the thought it'll be stable enough I can turn the whole system over to her at some point! /btw, thnx dthomas53
I am a FreeBSD user since 4.x (and still currently a 4.x user since the machine its running on is a P166 which I used to run on a 486 laptop) and the ports system by far is the best package system I have used compared to others.I just like the fact that the things that are built are tuned for the machine it is running on (important when you have such an old system).It also deals with all the dependencies so I don't even have to think much about it. And it still works with 4.x, there is no need to look for package versions specific to your level of Linux or BSD.Unfortunately I haven't found a good GUI for it as of yet. But I don't really need to anyway, just cd to the /usr/ports and make install in the directory of the app I want. freshports.org is a very useful source when dealing with ports since it provides a good search engine for the ports.Imagine trying to get Apache 2.2 running on Redhat 6. If you have to compile it yourself you'd have to read through so many HOWTOs. With ports its just "make install" even on FreeBSD 4.x.
I use FreeBSD 4.11 on my P166. If you have an old laptop you may just want to keep it as a server instead. FreeBSD 4.11 is still quite responsive, but since you have 64MBs of RAM (I only have 16MB, can't seem to upgrade it more) and some antiquated hardware 4.11 is the only version that worked. You may be able to get away with 5 or 6.
vondurDec 31, 2006
The PBI installer based system is really nice, maybe they could port it to linux.
mactardJan 1, 2007
I tried a previous version. It worked well. Recognized all hardware on a 5 year old laptop. I dropped it though since I had only 64mb of ram. It seems I only hear positive things about PC-BSD as it evolves. Maybe time to try PC-BSD again, betting bored with Fedora Core.
darkmonkxesJan 1, 2007
10x for the infos!I downloades the OS and tried to installed it, but i quited, because it did not recognise my partitions at install (i have 1 ntfs, 1 fat32, 1 ext3, 1 etx2, 1 swap. it recognised one partition, but i don't know what, because PC-BSD listed it as being fat, ntfs, linux native and another one... :( ) AND it did not initialise my mouse. It did not detect it. I had the same problem on Zeta 1.21 (BeOS based OS) and the mouse did not work even after the installation succceded.So, unless anyone knows hot to make PC-BSD recognise a PS2 mouse (there is nothing special about it, i think it's the port on the mainboard, an ASRock) i won't be installing this OS :((((((((Does anyone know what is to be done?
wiremonkeymommyJan 1, 2007
I've liked messing around with PC-BSD over the last couple of years... I think this time around it's going to be used for Open Office, Scribus and Inkscape to crank out .PDF's (brochures, presentations, etc.) for a friend's home business. I relish the thought it'll be stable enough I can turn the whole system over to her at some point! /btw, thnx dthomas53
trajanoJan 2, 2007
I am a FreeBSD user since 4.x (and still currently a 4.x user since the machine its running on is a P166 which I used to run on a 486 laptop) and the ports system by far is the best package system I have used compared to others.I just like the fact that the things that are built are tuned for the machine it is running on (important when you have such an old system).It also deals with all the dependencies so I don't even have to think much about it. And it still works with 4.x, there is no need to look for package versions specific to your level of Linux or BSD.Unfortunately I haven't found a good GUI for it as of yet. But I don't really need to anyway, just cd to the /usr/ports and make install in the directory of the app I want. freshports.org is a very useful source when dealing with ports since it provides a good search engine for the ports.Imagine trying to get Apache 2.2 running on Redhat 6. If you have to compile it yourself you'd have to read through so many HOWTOs. With ports its just "make install" even on FreeBSD 4.x.
trajanoJan 8, 2007
I use FreeBSD 4.11 on my P166. If you have an old laptop you may just want to keep it as a server instead. FreeBSD 4.11 is still quite responsive, but since you have 64MBs of RAM (I only have 16MB, can't seem to upgrade it more) and some antiquated hardware 4.11 is the only version that worked. You may be able to get away with 5 or 6.