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PC-BSD 1.3 reviewed at Linux.com

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splat

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Pretty decent and fair review in my eyes. They make comparisons to Linux and, specifically, Ubuntu. Some of their comments, like software versions lagging behind cutting edge, needs to be taken with a grain of salt as most Linux distros will lag behind on their "stable" branches also, and it would be nice of them to compare the PBI version to the version available in FreeBSD ports. Otherwise, I think this review is right on par with others I have read.

Article:
http://distrocenter.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/09/1426257&from=rss
 
PC-BSD is a great idea that could use more workforce. One of the current advantages to PC-BSD that the author doesn't mention is that not only can you install via the pbi installers, you can also use free-bsd's package system and also install via the ports system. The package system and ports system are much more up to date compared to the PBI installers because there is not enough work being done on PC-BSD. PC-BSD is a wonderful idea that just doesn't get enough time spent on it.

As far as the wireless card is concerned, in some linux distributions, ndiswrapper is already setup. I believe ndiswrapper is installed in freebsd since 5.3 so if the author had known this it is as easy as providing and loading in your windows network card driver. For PC-BSD, this could be made alot easier, but the support is there.
 
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