Here is my first new distro review in a while and since it was odd of me to do one right now, I decided to do an odd choice of distro to review!  This time, it was a NetBSD derivative that I decided to take a crack at.  I have been reading up on BSD and decided that it would be fun to try it out but I hadn't made the leap yet, since I love my Linux Mint so much....
First of all, Jibbed is NetBSD based, not Linux based (like my usual offerings).
So what were my impressions of my very first foray into BSD?  Well...not bad!  To me, Jibbed felt very much like Xubuntu, the Ubuntu with Xfce desktop.  Of course, as you dig into the File Manager (Thunar) you will find certain differences in file folders.  Initially, I couldn't figure out how to run the darn thing (type startx in the terminal line).  I wasn't sure how to add applications (are they called apps on BSD?) but the ones that were there were quite familiar: Firefox, Abiword, Pidgin, Xfmedia and Thunar file manager (which I really love, it's so small and fast). 
The look was the typical Xfce desktop (I believe version 4?) very cute with the mouse and all and the typical offerings of ways to tweak the Xfce.  I hadn't messed with Vim before and that was a very interesting application, not of much use to me at the present but has a lot of potential. 
Aside from the inability to figure out how to find a repository, I felt pretty comfortable in Jibbed.  It's not all that newbie friendly but a good choice for a first delve into BSD. 

Okay I have a few items of interest to report.
1.  NewLinuxUser.net is BACK UP!!!!  Finally!!! and by using different nameservers, I should hopefully be able to avoid this problem from now on.  Yay!!  (fingers crossed...maybe I shouldn't have written that yet lol)
2.  Next is that I am working on a new website for my band.  It will be out, about, up and running sometime this week as long as I have time to work on it.  More on that to follow.
3.  My band and I had our second show at the Uptown Tap and the self reviews are mixed.  I didn't feel like we did all that well but our audience liked it so that is what matters the most, thanks to everyone who came out to support us and our good friends, Tongue-N-Gruve have our gratitude for letting us open for them.
4.  Back to Linux News, I have two distros that I will be reviewing here pretty soon.  I can't say when exactly I will get to them because I have to get our band site up but it won't be too long before I get at least one of them done.  Stay tuned!