Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:13:10 -0700 From: ray@redshift.com To: Karel Miklav <karel@inetis.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD desktop? Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20050801231310.00a5f7e8@pop.redshift.com> In-Reply-To: <42EF0E5C.9080802@inetis.com> References: <3.0.1.32.20050801051007.00a5aeb0@pop.redshift.com> <3.0.1.32.20050801043607.00a5aeb0@pop.redshift.com> <3.0.1.32.20050801043607.00a5aeb0@pop.redshift.com> <3.0.1.32.20050801051007.00a5aeb0@pop.redshift.com>
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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
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