Operating system for 2007-2024

http://desktopbsd.sourceforge.net/

Windows-style device management and BSD stability at 1/4 the price of a Mac.

 

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its just PCBSD all over again.

Edit: Never heard of PCBSD? thiers a reason for that

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and why the year restriction? what if i want to try it in 2006?

EDIT: AND why is it 1/4 the price of a mac? its free :bugeye:

 

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How exactly is *BSD different from Linux or better than Linux?
Note that that is a question, I don't have a test box to discover for myself, so I'm asking.

 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/explaining-bsd/
Was a link on the site that you might want to read Avatar.

 

Thanks

 

The hardware is 1/4 price of a similarly-equipped macintosh.

http://www.anus.com/zine/news/1002.html

 

I will try it... who knows, maybe it's great.
However BSD is not what I would call a "home" OS. At least not for newbies.

 

That might have been the case a few years back. Nowadays anyone can install and operate it (user lvl). The look and feel has greatly improven for normal users over the last few years.

 

cool topic, as always, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable in clicking on a link to www.anus.com. 0_o

Last OSS OS that I tried, for reasons of testing it as a 'normal user' OS was Ubuntu. It installed as easily as OSX/Windows, but things were much more difficult after that. Less HW support meant that my audio wouldn't work, then I had a hard time finding some equivelent SW that had good feature parity...
While Open Office is *pretty much* good enough to replace MS Office, there are enough differences to make sure that it would take a gun to the head before my Mom would even try it.

http://www.bsddesktop.de/gallery/displayimage.php?album=1&pos=1
is a perfect example why. This is fine for me, and you, but most people don't know what a slice is. A GB, maybe, but how many MB are in a GB, to make sure that the space is right? Which little picture is the main drive? Which should I install onto? Does that 'Type' column mean anything? what is a partition? If I do something wrong, will the computer break?

Even from the screen shots I can tell you that it won't fly as a Desktop OS for many people. It won't fly as a desktop OS for me for one reason alone: the Gimp is nice, but it's still no Photoshop.
I may try it out for easy-to-admin home server type work, though. looks nice.

 

Well, I hope it doesn't fly as DesktopOS for many people. I loathe dumbed down software.
And if you want it to fly for most, then 95% it will be dumbed down, I don't need a MS Skippy helper agent asking me if I'd want to free more space or something...
It's a niche OS and I hope it stays such.

 

Talking of alternative OSes for the future, Solaris, the once enterprise-only heavyweight OS is now open-source.Get a free download at Sun Mic. . Solaris might not be for the faint hearted either although a windows-like java GUI provided.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, in a related incident - I trashed my HD installing Solaris.I'm in mid-install (read pc is unusable) I used a programme called Qtparted for resizing ntfs partitions. It has made my active partition unbootable. It is , apparently, the freeware equivalent of partition magic. As it is I'm downloading hiren's ultimate bootcd to repair the partition from an i-cafe (no I didn't back up

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) Solaris sounds the business though. I'm really keen to try use it to host a personal web project. Any ideas on how I might get that partition back would'nt go astray. All partitions are visible, but I get "error loading oprating system". fixmbr, fixboot dont work.

 

None. If we carry on with one O.S. for that long we"ll all be dead ducks. What are we thinking people? dynamism is the other synonym for software industry. By the time we reach 2024, Cubical holographic storage would have made a small wristwatch size iPod of 100 TB size, and MPUs of some freaking speeds and weights. One O.S. for that long? windows went for a while,but why did it start sucking? well to me it was its banality, everyday hackeneyed taskbar shit.

may be something from Apple. But hold on to your breath, 'cause you"ll soon see my version of O.S. floating around(its gotta be the coolest

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relax... if i live that long, i"ll have 3 kids by then and a belly to boast off...no one can predict future.

Rick