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Subject: Re: FreeBSD desktop?
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At 08:10 AM 8/2/2005 +0200, Karel Miklav wrote:
| ray@redshift.com wrote:
| > Okay, good to hear.  I love FreeBSD - I dumped Linux redhat a couple
| > of years ago and moved all of our servers over to FreeBSD and just
| > love it.  I really want to be able to make FreeBSD my desktop and it
| > seems like i should be able to get it up and running and configured
| > like SUSE or Redhat or Xandros or something along those lines with a
| > little work.
| 
| I was switching to FreeBSD for five years. First my web server, then
| notebook and finally home computer. It was obviously not easy, but the
| desire to live in a consistent world drove me. And what can I say now:
| well, my wife and kids don't complain, I only need to learn one
| platform and being up-to-date is easy. What a tremendous relief!
| 
| Some hints: gnome, mozila, openoffice, wmi, xterm, qemu, mplayer...

Thanks Karel.  I got my FreeBSD desktop up and running.  It's on X window and
gnome.  I am not sure about setting up the window manager, but may try that
later.  I did re-compile the kernel for SMP and strip it down a bit.  I also
compiled/installed GAIM, gimp, putty and firefox from ports.  

Ray