Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:52:14 -0400 From: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD (GhostBSD) Question? Message-ID: <CAPmsJLC001JNO==5VQoP6vBLzGT1g7L2fKR_ifd0BUSsxWmdAw@mail.gmail.com>
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Greeting All, Although I am committed to now taking the plunge and go all of the way with the FreeBSD platform, I wanted to get a FreeBSD distro flavor that already had a desktop and I could just install while I work on this current FreeBSD related project that I am doing now. With that in mind, here is what I tried. 1. FreeBSD 12.1 (core iso) --- This one boos up great on my hardware but seems like it will take a bit of work to get a graphical environment setup, which I can do, but time is short right now. 2. FuryBSD --- This is supposed to basically be FreeBSD 12.1 with a graphical environment already setup, but for some reason, bot the KDR and XFCE (amd64) ISO's would not completely boot up and went to a blank screen. I could not even login on a non-graphical console. Strange. 3. GhostBSD --- This one also seems like they took the FreeBSD 12.1 iso and added a graphical frontend since I actually see it saying "Booting FreeBSD 12.1" as it comes up. To my surprise, GhostBSD seems to come up nicely. My question to the mailing list is this. Is it accurate to say that GhostBSD is just FreeBSD with a graphical environment added? I ask, because I want to stay with FreeBSD, but just do not want to spend the time right now setting up the GUI and fine tuning, so I am taking the lazy way for the time being and will come back at a later time to do a fresh FreeBSD install from scratch. Cheers, Lonnie
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