2008/1/20, Zbigniew Baniewski <zb%ispid.com.pl@localhost>: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:40:52PM -0500, Doctor Who wrote: > > > Is there a LiveCD for NetBSD equivalent to DesktopBSD or PC-BSD? I > > remember a NetBSD-office (or something like that) back in the day and > > I see I live cd on the NetBSD ISO mirrors, but it appears a bit long > > in the tooth. > > My - quite personal - feeling is: there's no need. > > Why? NetBSD seems to be server-oriented OS rather, which - there's no doubt > - of course can be used on the desktops as well, but desktops aren't the > "target". Desktop user needs are somewhat different, than the server > administrator's; first of all: drivers for the newest hardware (or at least > for hardware, which still can be described as "new") - and I mean exactly this > sort of hardware, which is somewhat aside of the main interest of the devs: > like 3-D graphics accelerators, newest sound/music cards, and for other > hardware, which has no relationship to any server application. > > So, a general question: what for? A skilled person will install it from the > already available standard CD - but an average PC-user most probably just > doesn't want it. Even, if there were such CD - what then? Do you want to > persuade former Windows-user, that he has to edit config files, if he wants > to tune the system? > > Linux will be better choice (IMHO) for desktop; much better than PC-BSD, > exactly because of the better hardware support. Especially for those "coming > from Windows" perhaps the best tip would be Ubuntu-Linux, not any xBSD OS. > > And for those, who want to test it as desktop-OS anyway - Zafer prepared his > Jibbed-CD. > -- > pozdrawiam / regards > > Zbigniew Baniewski > It's a nice rescue CD aswell. And for first timers, to get in touch with NetBSD, without installing it. Zafer. http://www.jibbed.org/