Speaking of which: are there any "distros" out there ship a combination of FreeBSD and the latest Gnome desktop? I think that would be a better combination than Ubuntu's Debian+Gnome combo, personally.
Yes, the only FreeBSD 'distro'. FreeBSD is not fragmented like the 100 and 1 Linux distros Download the FBSD isos, install the gnome packages. Not new enough, build from source using ports. While it probably doesn't include the absolutely latest Gnome, the FreeBSD people tend to appreciate stability over cutting edge features, so its probably going to be a little behind the bleeding edge, for something popular like gnome though, it should match up with the latest stable release within a very short period
No, those are forks.
FreeBSD is not just a kernel like Linux. FreeBSD is the entire package. You don't have other distros, you have forks of the original.
Well, both PC-BSD and DesktopBSD claim to not be forks. DesktopBSD explicitly identifies itself as a distribution of FreeBSD and PC-BSD says "PIF" (PC-BSD is FreeBSD).
Here are the references:
[pcbsd.org]http://faqs.pcbsd.org/index.php?action=artikel&cat=14&id=304&artlang=en [pcbsd.org]
Of course, I appreciate the fact that FreeBSD's base is an integrated system which is maintained as a unit as opposed to Linux distributions which are sourced from multiple projects.
Incorrect. Both track the main FreeBSD tree. Consider them "value add" packages of software and tweaks layered on top of the official FreeBSD. A fork would be traced to a single point in time with ever-growing divergence (think DragonflyBSD). Both DesktopBSD and PC-BSD include updated bases of the main FreeBSD with their own updates. For example, PC-BSD 1.0 was based on FreeBSD 6.0. The current version of PC-BSD, 1.4.1, is based on FreeBSD 6.3. PC-BSD 2.0 will be based on FreeBSD 7.0. In fact, a lot of the D
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Download the FBSD isos, install the gnome packages. Not new enough, build from source using ports. While it probably doesn't include the absolutely latest Gnome, the FreeBSD people tend to appreciate stability over cutting edge features, so its probably going to be a little behind the bleeding edge, for something popular like gnome though, it should match up with the latest stable release within a very short period
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There are FreeBSD-based PC-BSD [pcbsd.org] and DesktopBSD [desktopbsd.net] Both of them are using KDE, though.
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FreeBSD is not just a kernel like Linux. FreeBSD is the entire package. You don't have other distros, you have forks of the original.
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http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:faqs [desktopbsd.net]
Of course, I appreciate the fact that FreeBSD's base is an integrated system which is maintained as a unit as opposed to Linux distributions which are sourced from multiple projects.
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In fact, a lot of the D