GhostBSD is nice, come with the option of openbox GUI. Also, on a unrelated topic Chrunchbang Linux is pretty sweet. I brought it up because it reminds me of OpenBSD/FreeBSD as I usually try and run them with as little overhead as possible; due to my use on old and virtual machines. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:29 AM, John Frisk <john.a.frisk at gmail.com> wrote: > As moderator I want to give Thomas and company speaking about ZFS their > time to present and have a good Q&A since ZFS was a popular topic during > the month of December. I encourage folks to feel free to talk about > FreeBSD after ZFS is done. We can always talk about it over a beverage > (maybe next door at Stouts) too if we need to leave the building. If there > is big interest we can use a future meeting time to talk about FreeBSD (and > compare it to Linux since this is a Linux User Group). As for next meeting > location: > > http://www.penguinsunbound.com/Meetings > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Andrew Krull <andrew.krull at gmail.com>wrote: > >> I too would be interested in hearing about FreeBSD. I am new to the >> LUG... when and where is the next meeting taking place? >> >> Thank you. >> >> ~Andrew >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:39 AM, <canito at dalan.us> wrote: >> >>> >>> Quoting Andrew Berg <robotsondrugs at gmail.com>: >>> >>> Since the next meeting is all about ZFS and I will be bringing my >>>> machine running FreeBSD and ZFS on root, and because of the release of >>>> FreeBSD 10 (builds have started; I expect there will be an official >>>> announcement in the next day or two), I thought I'd give a short talk on >>>> FreeBSD if there is some interest. Things I would cover: >>>> >>>> - Philosophical differences between Linux and the BSDs (mostly design >>>> and technical aspects, but I will touch on licensing) >>>> - Upgrades/updates to the base system vs. updates/upgrades to >>>> third-party software and package management (ports/pkgng) in FreeBSD >>>> - Some cool new things in FreeBSD 10 >>>> - An overview of the other BSDs >>>> - Any questions you may have >>>> >>>> I'm open to suggestions as well, so let me know if you'd like me to go >>>> over anything else. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>> >>> Hi Andrew- >>> >>> I'd be interested to know where FreeBSD stands as a desktop? In years >>> past I read that PCBSD was making strides, but why would I want to it as a >>> desktop now? I don't know if this is an appropriate venue to ask this >>> question? I know FreeBSD rawks as a stand alone server. One complain from a >>> friend year back is that it didn't really have a strong support for >>> virtualization and clustering. Also, interested in hearing the original >>> topic on ZFS. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> SDA >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140117/35ac7f7b/attachment.html>