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PCBSD will die like DesktopBSD due to the stubborn refusal by PCBSD developers to admit that PBIs are BIG mistake and creating the viable GUI for packages and ports. The focus of PCBSD should have been work on desktop
features of the FreeBSD like porting proprietary drivers for printing and scanning (sane-backends are half functional on FreeBSD, HLIP is in sad state)
as well as adding the WI driver (it is enough to port OpenBSD drivers) as well
as USB camera drivers (porting uvideo driver from OpenBSD comes to mind).
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I'm going to have to disagree with you there. PBIs are an extremely nice way of installing software (something the Linux guys should have picked up on a long time ago) and they make it much easier for the newcomers to the BSD world, especially those who don't like compiling software. If it wasn't for PC-BSD, I probably wouldn't be interested in BSD at all. In addition, the community continues to pick up new people and more interest with every release.
But back to the topic at hand, it's nice to know that a substitute forum like this one is available.