A quick review of PC-BSD 7.0

" For the rest I'm bouncing back and forth between "that's really cool" and "it's FreeBSD, of course it works." I won't comment on the package management system (PBI, alongside the usual FreeBSD ports) or installation (graphical, instead of the FreeBSD text-based one). Instead, it's the KDE4 that is delivered with PC-BSD.

"PC-BSD is interesting because it is a KDE4-only setup; version 7.0 comes with KDE 4.1.3. The whole point of the distro is to deliver a polished, intergrated version of FreeBSD with KDE4 on it. There was recently a question on the dot: "which distro would you recommend?" Well, there's only one that I know of that wholeheartedly delivers KDE4 and nothing else. That's a good kind of fixation to have (and of course, portinstall gnome2 is always a possibility; then you get a fairly pristine GNOME2 built from source)."

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