Comments on: Review: PC-BSD 7.0.1

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:33:37 +0000

I also think it’s odd that Distro Watch decided to link to this. I live-blog when I review distros and after all that time and all those screenshots, I didn’t want to just delete it.

By: Anon E Mouse

Anon E Mouse — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:50:55 +0000

“Now, there is one possible side effect of this that would make it a no-go for me as a desktop system. All over the PC-BSD website they talk about how it’s still FreeBSD underneath and you can install from ports. According to the wikipedia page, however, installing unsupported programs from ports like Gnome or Xfce can lead to a broken system. I’ll be testing how true that is later in the review.”

No where is this covered or mentioned again in your “review”. Was this edited by anyone with any kind of degree? The “review” abruptly ends after you admit you’re not doing a REAL install anyways and have just been wasting our time.

I am disappointed that Distrowatch feels there is anything link-worthy here, and that this passes for a “review” in some people’s minds is unfathomable to me. This reads like someone was paid per word but unfortunately has nothing to say, so they go on at length with the introduction trying to distract us from the lack of any substance.

I would have failed grade 8 with this kind of writing.

By: what a waste

what a waste — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:27:07 +0000

What is the point of posting a “REVIEW” if you are not going to review the product.

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:19:49 +0000

I determined it wouldn’t work in VirtualBox by checking the PC-BSD forums.

By: Anjum

Anjum — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:55:08 +0000

Ive used QEMU on windows and installed PC-BSD 7.0.1 on a virtual disk. It worked like a charm.

Now you havent really clarified as to what exactly happened leading you to conclude that PC-BSD does not work on VirtualBox.

If the issue is with GUI not starting up, then at boot time use VESA with 16-bit color depth (at 1024×768 resolution). I know for sure that X will crash for 24-bit color depth (not sure if it works at other resolutions at 16 bit depth).

By: Gigi

Gigi — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:21:03 +0000

Just curious.. Did you choose OS type to be FreeBSD in virtual box? (and I hope you are using Virtualbox 2.0 or higher)

Incidentally, the pcbsd homepage has a prebuilt vmware image available for download. It seems to be for 7.0 instead of 7.0.1 though.

By: Boycott Novell » Links 27/11/2008: GNU/Linux Climbs to Virtually 94% Market Share in Supercomputers, KDE 4.2 @ Beta

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:28:17 +0000

[...] Review: PC-BSD 7.0.1 Today’s distro has been described as the Ubuntu of the BSD world. PC-BSD is an easy to use version of FreeBSD. FreeBSD is the behemoth in the BSD world and would probably have a much larger desktop presence if the BSDs hadn’t run into copyright and other proprietary problems right around when most of the GNU toolset was complete and Linus was releasing the Linux kernel. At least, that’s what most people claim. However, given the animosity (although that’s almost too strong a word) between the Free Software Foundation and the supporters of the BSD license. [...]

By: rip

rip — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:42:53 +0000

PBI’s are a security risk

By: ZBREAKER

ZBREAKER — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:04:22 +0000

THEN WHY WASTE OUR TIME !!!!

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:12:14 +0000

Use VMWare Server. It is free for Windows and Linux use. PC-BSD has always installed and run, even with the vmware tools.