ffi Posted June 10, 2007 Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 (edited) Does anyone have experience with BSD? How does it compare with Mandriva or Ubuntu in desktop performance? Is Alsa available (so Flash 9 will work)? I tried installing the latest rc (rc2) of desktop-bsd in vmware (dont know how this would be in a regular install though) but it seems rather slow, especially the package-manager, but couldnt get flash to work. Supposedly BSD is very fast but all tests refer to server usage, not desktop usage. I chose desktop-bsd because it has xorg 7.2 so I would be able to install beryl (on a regular install), whilst pc-bsd still only has 6.9 Edited June 10, 2007 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Yes, I do ;) ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) NO. Flash, yes slow, no I just use straight BSD when I use it, so package manager I use cli and don't know much about the gui stuff. http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/ http://www.openaddict.com/howtos.html http://www.openaddict.com/installing_freebsd_6_2.html http://www.openaddict.com/deploying_a_free..._2_desktop.html https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...&hl=freebsd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Thanks for the links. I am pretty sure though that I saw libalsa in the repos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 (edited) nevermind...i had a question but then i read the first post and realized it was answered :D Edited June 14, 2007 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 desktop-bds, which uses free-bsd repos (like pc-bsd). I sort off borked my install, it doesnt display fonts anymore and since I installed in vm-ware I cant even seem to ctrl alt f1 into a terminal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 If you're using vmware, go into the options, and set the hotkey to use CTRL-ALT-SHIFT instead of the default CTRL-ALT. Then, when you next restart the machine after a power off, you'll be able to get the console that you're after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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