DesktopBSD...best choice for BSD newbie?

[gore]

Dice:

I knew parts of that, I basically just wanted to get out that a reboot after those updates is a good idea for the most part.

Also you would probably like a DVD I bought from FreeBSDMall:

20 Years of Berkeley UNIX.

It's a VERY good DVD and goes into the whole history of BSD, how it started, how multi user OSs started and even the AT&T stuff heh.

If you have an extra 20 dollars, seriously buy it!

[SirDice]

Sounds very interesting, those Berkeley guys were way ahead of their time

I always like to show the bsd family tree

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cg...tree?rev=1.118

IIRC if you look at the strings in NT4's ping.exe you'll find a Berkeley copyright
MS has no problems with FreeBSD because they can use it's source. The only reason they've got something against linux is because of the GPL.

[C:\Saw]

I actually gave DesktopBSD a shot, but it screwed up my boot loader and I ended up unnecessarily reformatting my linux partition out of frustration
(i was having issues that day...no patience) thankfully, (after much work) I have my linux part. set up better than before (it's always a pain to manually set up wifi and firewall and get back all the packages you need and such all over again grrrrrr...)
--also learned a lesson, burn grub to cd for emergencies! and regularly backup your data, haha

I'm stickin with linux, got no problems with it
-"what aint broken don't need to be fixed"

i did like the livecd of D.BSD though

[isildur]

I was one of the unfortunates that installed dragonflybsd 1.0 (ouch), when it first was released. It erased my /home drive that had never been backed up (I know, I know) and had been gathering info, bookmarks, downloads for several years. That slowed down somewhat my experimenting with new releases.