Comments on: Welcome! http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/08/welcome/ Discover the Desktop Fri, 24 May 2013 15:28:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: bloggosphere http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/08/welcome/#comment-148 bloggosphere Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:09:17 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=58#comment-148 Many fun with your blog and blogging. welcome to the bloggosphere :)

]]> By: dru http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/08/welcome/#comment-71 dru Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:10:30 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=58#comment-71 Great!

There’s a start on a GNOME FAQ here.

]]> By: Jes http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/08/welcome/#comment-68 Jes Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:37:18 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=58#comment-68 Hi all:

I have just finished the PC-BSD 8.1 installation. I had tested it before (other versions) but I missed the lack of support for suspend-to-ram (and hibernation) in my thinkpad (several models in deed) with smp. But now… WOW!, it’s able to suspend-to-ram and resume fine!!! and without disabling SMP!!!! So… well for FreeBSD and very very very well for PC-BSD.

It would be fantastic if hibernation could work (I haven’t tested it yet) but… It’s not as important for me as suspend.

So, what else?, 3G Huawei modem works fine out of the box, thinkpad buttons… I can’t run wine due to the amd64 installation…. I would prefer Gnome instead of KDE, but…

PC-BSD people: keep in the right way!!! and thanks for this fabulous OS!

]]> By: mato http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/08/welcome/#comment-43 mato Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:39:04 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=58#comment-43 I second that.
PC-BSD is positioned as desktop system and it really has to support save-to-ram / save-to-disk functionality. The same goes for wireless, sound and video devices. If those do not work, people will not even consider PC-BSD. Also, these days video calling is getting more and more important and PC-BSD simply must support USB / built-in web cameras.
Now I know that all these are about FreeBSD but users don’t care or even know what is behind KDE GUI. And PC-BSD can and should sponsor development of these features if it wants to be considered Ubuntu / Windows replacement.
For instance, one of the issues in past was USB mass storage device unplugging that would panic the system. Then FreeBSD Foundation (FF) sponsored Tomasz Napierala who fixed this long time issue. PC-BSD should actively talk to FF and prioritise sponsoring of work that matter most for desktop users.
Anyway, thank you all at PC-BSD for helping move FreeBSD to new users and usage. I am trying to advocate PC-BSD and replace other OSes for my friends (where it makes sense). But there are a few issues (as mentioned above) that need to be sorted out to make PC-BSD a really viable option.

]]> By: dru http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/08/welcome/#comment-15 dru Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:18:27 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=58#comment-15 Does anyone know why wordpress insists on putting URLs in front of the above reply, even after I delete them?

]]> By: Richard http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/08/welcome/#comment-14 Richard Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:21:17 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=58#comment-14 Thank you dru for taking the time to outline these options.

]]> By: dru http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/08/welcome/#comment-13 dru Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:20:45 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=58#comment-13 freebsdmall.comfreebsd.org
If you can afford it, The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD has a section on alternate boot loaders and provides step by step examples for using Grub versions 1 and 2 and GAG. We’ll also be updating the PC-BSD Users Handbook, but this, of course, will take some time.

In the meantime, the section on bootloaders in the FreeBSD FAQ may be useful.

]]> By: Richard http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/08/welcome/#comment-12 Richard Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:14:24 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=58#comment-12 I have not used PC-BSD, but have been following its development with a keen eye to trying it sometime. I am not an expert computer person, but have been slowly migrating from Windows to Linux based distributions over the last few years. I now feel pretty confident with multi-booting and using Linux primarily through a GUI. I got to feeling quite adept and able with the older GNU GRUB, and have a hard time with the newer one, which more distros are now moving to.

What I would find most helpful, is more detail in discussion of what is possible and necessary for including PC-BSD into my pre-existing multi-boot system (on a partiton of its own), such that the boot-loader situation is taken care of, and hopefully not too terribly complicated . When I look at the PC-BSD website under ‘MIGRATE’ it says:

“you may wish to determine if the standard PC-BSD boot-loader
will be sufficient to boot other operating systems. If not, you may
wish to use another boot-loader such as GAG.”

So, how exactly do I determine if the standard boot-loader will be sufficient? Also, is GAG the easier way to go? The only other way to go? Are there tutorials, howtos/walk throughs that explain how to use these other bootloaders with PC-BSD?

If I am missing obvious info that is referenced elsewhere, please point. Or if this is too basic. Forgive me. I would love to give the OS a go.

Thanks for the BLOG, and good luck with it.

]]> By: dru http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/08/welcome/#comment-11 dru Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:18:47 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=58#comment-11 Thanks!

]]> By: dru http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/08/welcome/#comment-10 dru Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:16:11 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=58#comment-10 Thanks, Andrew!

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