LinuxBSDos.com article

[pete wright]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Charlie Kester <corky1951 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Thu 18 Feb 2010 at 02:20:25 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:06:32 -0800, Charlie Kester <corky1951 at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/
>>>
>>> "PC-BSD is ... the only BSD-based distribution that's in a position to
>>> compete with the best Linux desktop distributions..."
>>>
>>> <sigh>
>>
>> This is a pretty realistic way to put it, IMO.  Note that, to PC-BSD's
>> credit, it is compares with the *best* Linux distributions.  That's a
>> nice way of saying how cool PC-BSD is :-)
>
> Not taking anything away from PC-BSD, but the way the article put it, it
> sounded like a slam on FreeBSD (and OpenBSD and NetBSD too).
>

hrm I took that as an indication of the good foundation that FreeBSD
has laid for pc-bsd.  The only thing that irked me was that they used
the phrase "BSD-base distribution".  *BSD is an OS, not a kernel with
a bunch of stuff bolted on to it - heh.

-pete



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pete wright
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