[Nottingham] OT: PC-BSD

[Brian Pickford]

I was reading up on the PC-BSD webby  http://www.pcbsd.org recently 
during a random E-break at work. I thought that it would be ideal for 
installing on old machines.
So I tried it on a and old (K6-II-500, 128M PC100 Ram, 8Gig HD) machine 
I was intending to give to my mother-in-law so she could try 'this inter 
web thing'
I was very impressed, so I have installed it on my main browsing / mail 
machine (Compaq AP400 work station PIII600) It seems to be very lean and 
fast, although I have to re compile the kernel to support smp.

- One cd install most things auto detected runs KDE 3.4 and a small 
cluster of apps out of the box.
- pbi's install like windows exe's.
- Linux binary compatability.
- Can also use the BSD ports system.

Thought I'd reccomend it to the group for a look see

Cheers, Brian