Continuing his BSD summer interviews, Bill Toulas conducted an interview with Kris Moore, the founder and current leader of development of the desktop user-friendly PC-BSD project.
The questions asked and answered are:
- As the founder of PC-BSD, what can you tell us about your decision to start this project? How did you get involved with BSD systems, and what drove you into creating one?
- What is your current role in PC-BSD?
- Why did you choose Free-BSD as the basis for your system?
- What goodies from Free-BSD can be found on PC-BSD? Are all the innovative security tools of Free-BSD available on PC-BSD too?
- I found the installer and the AppCafe very user-friendly. What else is there making user’s life easier, while also confirming PC-BSD’s desktop aiming?
- Ubuntu is considered to be the most user-friendly and most well-supported free operating system out there. Why would one choose PC-BSD instead of Ubuntu?
- For a desktop OS, apart from user-friendliness and user-support, it is also important to offer as better hardware and software compatibility as possible. How are you doing on this sector?
- Although using PC-BSD was generally a relaxed and nice experience for me, I was kind of disappointed by the use of GNOME 2 in your latest version. Is this a decision of yours for usability purposes, or are you planning to port GNOME 3 on the next release?
- When are we going to see the next release, and what will be the highlights of it?
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PC-BSD is a very nice system. The AppCafé is very user friendly and even when you are a long unix user, you discover new software that you didn’t know it exists. The AppCafé displays only the software we use, not the libraries, that’s a lot easier to find what to install than looking into all the package list and try to guess what this package does.
There is a lot of very nice features in PC-BSD, the big problem I think is the hardware support. It don’t boot on 2 of my 3 computers, that’s very sad !