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Well, after a dodgy start (had to change AGP aperture size to 128mb) that had me puzzled for a fair while, things are now doing ok. PC-BSD is an absolute doddle to install as is extra software. The easy way to install extra software is by using the pbi packages, which are a simple double click...

Have the final hardware specs been published yet?

I'll probably be installing PC-BSD over the weekend (downloading now) so I'll post back on how things go, just in case anyone is even remotely interested ;)

Ebay?

lol I was waiting for someone to chime in with that :rasp: BSD = Berkeley Software Distribution

I like change and learning new stuff!

I'd say there are 3 main benefits: 1. No viruses, spyware, malware etc. 2. Free updates, so no paying for the next version. 3. Package Manager - no more googling for an application, just type in the search box and install.

PC-BSD is supposed to be more desktop orientated and is based on FreeBSD. The only downside that I can see at the moment is limited applications, everything I currently use is available on it though. If anyone has any fairly long term desktop experience I'd be interested to hear from you.

Any (PC-)BSD users on here? Having recently swapped Ubuntu for openSUSE I'm now thinking of swapping openSUSE for PC-BSD. Read a lot and seen a lot of screenshots but has anyone actually had any experience of running either PC-BSD or other variants?

I wish Raptor design would hurry up with some mockups at least! Raptor being the new menu in KDE4 http://plasma.kde.org/wiki/index.php/RaptorMenu

I did the KDE update from 3.5.5. to 3.5.6 yesterday, was over 400mb lol

You'll need to use SAMBA on your Ubuntu box to see your XP machine I believe. If it's not already installed, just go into synaptic and search for samba. I'm not sure about seeing Ubuntu from XP though, probably the normal file sharing wizard will do the job, it's been a very long time since I...

Good. good :)

Some of those updates will be updates to the various programs installed with Ubuntu I should think. For the year I used it I didn't have any update problems, I can only really see one post on "configuring capplets-data" on the Ubuntu forums and in that one the machine froze, rebooted itself...

I use ethernet so drivers aren't needed. Modem: Linksys ADSL2MUE Router: Linksys BEFSR81 I tried directly connecting to the modem just in case the router was causing an issue but no change. I know it's not my pc at fault because my other halfs pc has the same results. I use openSUSE 10.2...

Friday last week, hopefully you're right!

Personally I would always choose cable if it's available, that way you are getting what you pay for, none of this "up to" 8Mb. We "upgraded" to 8Mb ADSL recently from 2Mb. My modem confirms it's an 8Mb connection but for some reason it still appears to be 2Mb i.e. my download speed is the same...

You'll go to hell if you don't use Linux. This is the way forward, show them the way of the penguin whilst they are still young http://www.fbc.org.uk/fbcHome/fbcChildren/Penguins ;)

Checksum? If that is ok then try burning it slow like 4x

Download the Live DVD first. You can try openSUSE 10.2 WITHOUT installing it. If you decide you like it then download the other DVD to install it.

I was never a KDE fan until I used openSUSE now I much prefer it over GNOME.

Unless of course you have to switch between ECC and EPP, then it takes a little longer ;) Ubuntu wanted EPP but when I stuck a parallel printer switch on it wanted ECC then when I changed to openSUSE it wanted EPP again :S

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5 http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html Both are free and both say they will work under Vista, couldn't really say which is best though.

I took my own advice as well recently and replaced Ubuntu with openSUSE ;) I can't really make any recommendations on file server usage as I only use it for the desktop, I guess it depends whether you want to purely use it for a server or you will be using it as a desktop as well. KDF might...

Think of it this way... It would be like breaking into someone's house and having a look round. You might not touch / move / break / steal anything but you still broke in, in the first place.

Looks like you have an old version. From what I can see, from at least version 2 onwards has a History menu at the top - I know mine does! If you want the complete history then you click the History menu and then Show in sidebar (or CTRL + H as has been said)

Live DVD and Install DVD are actually separate that's why it won't have worked ;)

Did you install it or run from the Live DVD? It's worth trying KDE, the SUSE menu is pretty cool. I switched from Ubuntu recently after just over a year if usage. YAST software manager isn't as good as synaptic in that you manually have to add the repos to begin with and it's a tad on the slow...

Don't need to have an app open to show that, the panel at the bottom gives it away... Having an app open makes it less boring.