> How is PC-BSD doing nowadays? Is it really worth installing and using?
Anecdotally, I installed it on a spare laptop last month and the first main hurdle was that the disk partitioner kept failing until I first manually fdisked the disk to a single partition.
The second hurdle was that when it booted to the desktop there was no system tray icon to enable wireless networking and select an SSID, despite the 4965 chipset being fully supported. Presumably it requires some messing-around with wpa_supplicant.
I haven't had time to go back to it but both would be deal-breakers for the 'common person'.
Anecdotally, I installed it on a spare laptop last month and the first main hurdle was that the disk partitioner kept failing until I first manually fdisked the disk to a single partition.
The second hurdle was that when it booted to the desktop there was no system tray icon to enable wireless networking and select an SSID, despite the 4965 chipset being fully supported. Presumably it requires some messing-around with wpa_supplicant.
I haven't had time to go back to it but both would be deal-breakers for the 'common person'.