[PLUG] PC-BSD rebrands itself as TrueOS, tracks FreeBSD-CURRENT

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

Earlier this year I was looking around for a distribution of linux to 
put on a new laptop.  I wanted something that was well suited to being 
"desktop linux", had KDE available, and didn't include systemd.

My reading led me to also consider PC-BSD, which I tested out in a VM. 
Things seemed to be going along ok (for an unfamiliar OS) until it 
prompted me to perform a system update (going from release 10.1 to 10.2) 
at which point it deleted its GUI and left me sitting at a command 
prompt without any idea of what to do.

At that point I gave up on it, but did wonder what I did so wrong. 
Today there's an article on Slashdot, addressing PC-BSD's name change. 
The comments have been insightful for me, in that I'm far from the only 
person who experienced things like this with PC-BSD.

Besides the name change, they are also going to be tracking the 
FreeBSD-CURRENT release, which is the most cutting-edge one.  To me, 
that's not what you'd want to do for a desktop OS.

I thought this information might be helpful to others in my position:

https://bsd.slashdot.org/story/16/09/02/0350204/pc-bsd-follows-a-rolling-release-model-gets-renamed-to-trueos
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