There are a series of articles at this site on the install and configuration of pcbsd, which I mentioned recently as a linux alternative. PCBSD is built on freebsd and is designed to be a desktop operating system.
Tag: PCBSD
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Linux alternatives.
Once you’ve made the plunge to look at operating systems outside of the Microsoft realm, linux has typically been the easiest accessible. Lot’s of livecds are out there and much can be freely downloaded. Of course there is the Mac as well with Os X. I’ve liked what I have seen of it, but there is a higher cost of commiting to that platform. (Hardware +software). I’m also not comfortable giving up one company that has fairly tight control over the software for a company that has fairly tight control over the hardware and some of the software.