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. 

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