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FreeBSD?

An Fear Aniar · 2008-06-24 10:06:18

Anyone using FreeBSD on a laptop? From comments I've seen, FreeBSD is really really good. Would it be easy for an ordinary user to use FreeBSD? .

24-06-2008 11:06AM

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An Fear Aniar

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Anyone using FreeBSD on a laptop?

From comments I've seen, FreeBSD is really really good.

Would it be easy for an ordinary user to use FreeBSD?

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#2 24-06-2008 01:42PM

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You should have no trouble at all with it , have a look at this too ( based on freebsd):

http://www.pcbsd.org/

They provide a vmware image so you can try it out first:

* download the PC-BSD 1.5 VMware image
* download 7-Zip for unzipping
* download the VMware Player

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#3 25-06-2008 03:20PM

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Check out the hardware notes on the website. Most of your hardware should work.

FreeBSD 7.0 has a graphical installer. A small blessing but always a welcome addition.

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