One thing you might want to think about
php111, the contents of CD1-3 are all out dated, but you only need CD1 to install FreeBSD itself. The ports/pkgs (which include xorg, kde3, and gnome2) are all very outdated.
I generally find it best to install, run freebsd-update (or switch to 7-stable via source), then install the desired software (x11/xorg, wm/de, etc) via packages or ports. Because it allows you to have less trouble sorting out the installed software later, until after you've learned how to update installed ports/pkg properly.
You should also print out jggimi's last post, and keep it as a reminder.
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Originally Posted by cerulean
Ubuntu is a nice product, agreed. But with his goal of learning BSD and dual-booting, PC-BSD makes a nice simple install to get to a GUI so he can have a functional, graphical BSD system while learning. Depending on his system, perhaps doing virtual machines might be an option (under Windows, Ubuntu or BSD) --- this would give him the ability to setup a virtual network and not worry (too much) about messing up his desktop install.
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PC-BSDs last release (7.0) might go down in history along side their 1.5.1 release, the way FreeBSD 5 and FreeBSD 4 have --- to much change from the last release, much too fast. If it works for him out of the box with kde4, that would be a mission accomplished, if not, well he'll probably have stability problems with PC-BSD lol.
Some of the posts on their support forums over the new release, have given me a tad less then enthusiastic point of view. Using it under VirtualBox especially seems problematic.