Being a geek, I like to tinker with systems other than Windows (you may have picked this up if you read this blog with any regularity). Having grounded myself well in Mac OS X and various Linux distributions, I decided that it was time to look at the BSD's.
Since Mac OS X is my home O/S of choice, and is based on FreeBSD, I figured I'd give that a go. So I did a net install, and all is good - I have a geeky, command-line only FreeBSD box to play with when I next have a chance. Hopefully I'll learn some stuff.
Anyway, FreeBSD is pretty unfriendly to install, even when compared to some Linux distros, but I had previously stumbled across PC-BSD, which is FreeBSD all packaged up so as to be friendly for desktop use. Looking at it again today, I found that version 1.1 had recently been released, so I went to the download page to get me some install discs.
What I found will be a delight to any self-respecting geek - they offer iso CD images, but also a VMWare virtual machine image. This means that to have a go with PC-BSD, you don't need to install it or even run it from a slow old live CD - you just download the VMWare image to your VMWare host and boot it up.
I have to say that this is a great way of demo/testing an O/S, and I hope it catches on.
Oh, and I love the new FreeBSD icon/logo :)