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Old 20th September 2008
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
PCBSD created a OS X (dmg) style (PBI) package format... that's about it
PC-BSD is much more than that. It has put a lot of work into configuring the system so that newbies can use it without going through all of the stuff that vanilla FreeBSD requires. The original question is but one example. FreeBSD gives you the tools, but PC-BSD gives you a system that is pretty much ready to use. That can be rather important, and it not all that trivial.

I'm no fan of either PBIs or of PC-BSD, since I know the FreeBSD ropes very well. But to brush it off as unimportant is seriously shortsighted.

(Last I checked, PC-BSD was a packaged version of FreeBSD, so everything that works on PC-BSD will work on FreeBSD, and vice versa. It is not a distribution.)
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