Start PC-BSD in this March

I was previously a FreeBSD user and a Fedora Linux user at school time.

In this March, I tried to install a BSD or Linux on my home computer again.

Finally, I decided to try PC-BSD, which is basically a FreeBSD for Desktop user and aims at easy-of-using.

Like many other OS nowadays, I did not need to burn a DVD/CD for it any more.

What I‘ve to do is simply to burn the image to a USB disk (in fact, an SD card for me). If you want to burn the image to USB, win32-image-writer is an open source tool for this purpose. But unfortunately, Chinese Govenment has blocked the sourceforge.net! And the w32-image-writer, amang many other open source softwares, are hosted in sourceforge.net. So, I‘ve to google an alternative download site for it. Finally I downloaded a version 0.7 and wrote the image.

Then, just to boot the computer with USB. I installed the PC-BSD on an independent hard-disk other than that one for Windows. So, I simply selected the PC-BSD specific hard-disk and selected "use entire disk". I set 4G for SWAP (my memory is 2G). But now, it seems not necessary. With top, I never saw the SWAP is used. And I chose MATE as my desktop manager. You may also try LXVM, KDE or Xfce4, etc.

Besides the above, there seems nothing worthy of mentioning. After the installation,

• the display, network and even sound are all automatically configured, ready-for-use.
• The Chinese fonts are also perfect in Chromium or Firefox.
• The partitions in Windows are one-click-mountable.

That‘s quite cool! So, if you want to try FreeBSD but you are not so confident with FreeBSD, you should try PC-BSD.

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原文：http://www.cnblogs.com/jieyuan-shen/p/3631959.html