It seems to me Ubuntu is a bit "too easy" to use now so I am
trying some other OS these days. One is Arch Linux and FreeBSD.
I just finished the updating of FreeBSD and Arch Linux over the
weekend. FreeBSD updating process is a dismay experience with
CVSUP. During the process, I had to remove almost everything, including
X since I ran into problems with HAL and Pango. Still I could not even
get X because of HAL. I had to use binary packages to finally update
the system. It took many hours to update the system from 6.2 Stable
to 7.0 Current ((still got quite some packages outdated) and I do not
have many packages (initially only XFCE and partial KDE) installed
as compared to Arch (rather full Gnome+KDE installation).

On the contrary, I used about 1.5 hours to update Arch Linux,
including download of 994.5MB of updates from Australia
mirror (ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au). The only problem is that
I need to remove apmd (from Google).

It seems to me that FreeBSD has a long way to go to catch
up with Linux in terms of easy of use in the Desktop. So FreeBSD
is only for me to test some PIC related things now.

Xiaofan
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