FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions)

[Neal Hogan]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Jonathan McKeown<j.mckeown at ru.ac.za> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:43:47 Mark Stapper wrote:
>>
>> In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a "Ubuntu" like movement
>> in the FreeBSD corner.
>> What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
>> FreeBSD.
> [snip]
>> To achieve this, there are two things that should be made easier:
>> 1. Installing a basic desktop system(next to any currently installed OS)
>> 2. Keeping the base system and ports up to date.
>> And when I mean "easier" I mean it should be done without bothering the
>> user unless you about to "rm -rf /" as root, so to say.
>
> This is what a couple of projects are already doing. PC-BSD springs to mind -
> I can't remember what the other one is called.

DesktopBSD

>
> PC-BSD is FreeBSD, pre-packaged with a usable desktop and its own simplified
> package manager.
>
> Jonathan
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