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 Posted by Jason on Saturday June 30, @11:25AM
from the dept.
I guess I may be behind the curve on this one because it went unnoticed on my BSD radar. I'm talking about PC-BSD!
PC-BSD, located at http://www.pcbsd.org, is the first real BSD OS which has been derived directly from FreeBSD. What makes PC-BSD so cool, and ready for the masses, is the Installer which is a very clean GUI that auto detects all of your hardware.
If you're new here and you would like to checkout FreeBSD without wiping out or repartitioning your Windoze PC, then I suggest you download a 30 day eval of VMWARE's VM Workstaion and install PC-BSD inside a VMWARE virtual machine. I tried this on an old Dell Laptop with 512 megs of RAM and a 1Gig Centrino processor. It worked like a charm. PC-BSD found ALL of the VMW hardware correctly and it even runs at an okay speed- especially considering I only gave PC-BSD 192 megs of RAM inside VMW. It's a great chance to checkout two very cool products in one quick shot.
I'm going to look into VMW for FreeBSD since FreeBSD is my primary OS. That way I can experiment with other OS's inside the comfort of my preferred OS- FreeBSD... sweeeeet!
Cheers,
Jason
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