Ars Technica article on FreeBSD new user experience

[Freddie Cash]

On Fri., Apr. 10, 2020, 1:23 p.m. Rick Macklem, <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca>
wrote:

> Yes. I'll admit I didn't know FuryBSD existed until now, but if the web
> page is
> accurate, it would be fine.
>
> Maybe all that should be done is a reference to it on FreeBSD's web page.
> "If you are new to FreeBSD and want a desktop system, you could try..."
> FreeNAS should be mentioned as well, for people who want a NAS server,
> imho.
>
> Although I said a new FreeBSD release, I don't see why it needs to be done
> by
> the FreeBSD project itself, just that I didn't realize others were
> currently doing this.
>
> Maybe someone should ask the author of this article to try FuryBSD?
>

FuryBSD and GhostBSD were mentioned in the comments, and the author, Jim
Salter, is currently in the process of reviewing the latter. He's mentioned
he'll take a look at the further sometime in the future.

Cheers,
Freddie

Typos due to smartphone keyboard.

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