Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

[Rico Secada]

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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:41:03 +0200
From: Rico Secada <coolzone at io.dk>
To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.orgrg>
Subject: Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop


On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:26:03 -0500
Doug Poland <doug at polands.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote:
> > Hi All.
> > 
> > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers
> > for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping
> > third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO.
> > 
> > Building everything from ports is ok, on a quick machine, but even on
> > a quick machine building KDE takes a LOT of time. Waiting until the
> > stable packages are ready takes about 2 - 3 weeks, and until then, a
> > lot of other stuff needs to be updated. 
> > 
> perhaps you'd like PC-BSD?

:-)

No, I'm gonna go with OpenBSD og Debian. Thanks.

> -- 
> Regards, 
> Doug
>