Just a quick posted:
I installed PC-BSD on a desktop PC Pentium 4/2.66GHz/512MB RAM and on Centrino/1.7GHz/512MB RAM laptop.
The installer detected the installed hardwares in desktop and laptop very well, installation process was in hi-res mode, automatically set to the best available resolution on my 17″ LCD and 12″ WXGA on laptop, and took about 20 minutes for complete installation of cd #1. Almost “just click [NEXT]“, typing only on entering administrator and default user form.
Cool.

After logging on, I set to “not automatically logged on” when asked during installation, thus I have to enter the correct user/password, KDE appear.
Seems very fast, and desktop also very responsive.
There’s no “big applications” like OpenOffice or The GIMP, those are on Extra CD, which I did not install yet.
Played around, PC-BSD impressed me. I have to install Extra CD, and trying whether it still fast.

And another Linux I will try is Panic! Linux, based on Slackware. It will be ready around end of this February, as Budi, main developer, told me it’s fast, and support wide range of hardwares. Hope it supports touch-screen monitor then.