Well, after a week straight of having a few minutes or so to myself here and there, and finally feeling a little better other than the Migraines, I decided to use some of my time free to screw with some things online.

I ended up going to Distrowatch, and grabbing about 12 new OSs. One of the ones I got was PC-BSD 8. I had an older version from the 7.x series, but I never really installed it, and with this new one being out, I wanted to give it a shot.

I booted my Laptop up with the CD in the drive, and started installing.

The installation was incredibly easy. You don't need to know very much to get this thing rolling on your machine. I didn't read any installation HOWTO or anything, and just reading the screen was enough for me to know what to do.

The Installer is a nice GUI based install, and it does everything FOR you. It also has a VERY small number of packages that come with it on the CD, but telling it to install from the Network is easy too, and not only that, once you boot, it's even easier to install stuff.

I let it install the 10 or so programs that it came with (Well, extras anyway) like Opera

After I got to my desktop, I saw the Package installer. I loaded it up after hearing a sound play to tell me my Desktop was loaded, and this in itself is amazing as no other BSD does sound out of the box...

Anyway, I loaded up the software loader and updates application, and I'm still in shock at how it has some AMAZING stuff. You click on a package category, select a package, it tells you what it is, and looks pretty, and you click a Mouse button, and it grabs it and installs it for you....

Oh by the way, if you like FreeBSD, you can install that too from the installer... It offers both!

I'm just going to go ahead and say this:

PC-BSD gets the gore stamp of approval. I Love it.