OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] BSD for the Windows user

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Feb 13, 2006
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Vincent wrote:
> 
> Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> > I've found that Ubuntu is designed for people who just want to "get in
> > and drive" as my friends and I put it. Anyone who wants to "get under
> > the hood" is going to have varying degrees of difficulty. Just see my
> > post on setting environment variables. Oh, and getting xmotor to work.
> 
> I'm going to get PC-BSD (FreeBSD v6.0). I rather go with BSD than one of the
> countless number of Linux distros. The BSD development philosphy is more
> professional,
> stable, robust, and isn't really fighting commerical software companies like
> the Linux movement. Besides, FreeBSD can run most Linux software anyway and
> Euphoria would work just fine because it's a supported platform.
> 
> I know nothing about BSD, but I'm up for the challenge to learn the Unix way
> of things.
> 
> PC-BSD/Windows XP dual boot sounds good. 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent

I tried PC-BSD once, and it was all right. My only problem with it is that I was
used to Linux and GRUB for a boot loader. I may have to try it again because I
like how light-weight it is compared to some Linux distros.

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