From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jul 22 17:05:19 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615E4359727 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:05:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [174.136.98.114]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BBhfk4mwTz4Ry0 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:05:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.160] (cpe-23-243-161-111.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.161.111]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 61f29251 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: FreeBSD (GhostBSD) Question? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1720589882.5509006.1595431360144@mail.yahoo.com> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:05:17 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BBhfk4mwTz4Ry0 X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pete@nomadlogic.org designates 174.136.98.114 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pete@nomadlogic.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.12 / 15.00]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.92)[-0.921]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.20)[0.198]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.10)[-0.100]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; ASN(0.00)[asn:25795, ipnet:174.136.96.0/20, country:US]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[23.243.161.111:received] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:05:19 -0000 On 7/22/20 9:45 AM, Don Wilde wrote: > > On 7/22/20 8:22 AM, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions wrote: >> > Okay, so I bit. Manish, I started using your 'mkdesktop', but I > stopped. No matter what I do, it wants to give me all kinds of what > the Doze world calls 'accessories'. > > GhostBSD seems to want to do the same thing. MATE is every bit as fat > as Ubuntu! I want an intermediate step where I can choose what to add > after the desktop is installed. you might want to give nomadbsd a spin then.  it's pretty light weight since it's built to run off of a USB drive and is based on Openbox for the UI which is also pretty light weight. i think the value is that it takes care of lots of the fiddling with configs and installing pkgs so that audio, 3d graphics and things like that work out of the box. -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA