Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 09:35:37 -0400 From: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: New Updates WAS: [FreeBSD (GhostBSD) Question?] Message-ID: <CAPmsJLC3nPRjO8eW7kM_ab13__NytHeR5FxC=-mGLQdWNuXNog@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200722234839.8e69a027.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAPmsJLC001JNO==5VQoP6vBLzGT1g7L2fKR_ifd0BUSsxWmdAw@mail.gmail.com> <1720589882.5509006.1595431360144@mail.yahoo.com> <b1166d38-0e83-a6e5-77df-1025e60af5cb@gmail.com> <f538b3c2-2de3-0889-bd00-7be76bb2b52e@nomadlogic.org> <20200722191856.296d1e2e@archlinux> <20200722204305.ca4991ef.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200722231611.3d782ae7@archlinux> <20200722234839.8e69a027.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hi All, NOTE: To shorten the long message stream, I renamed it. Thanks to everyone for the wonderful comments and suggestions about GhostBSD, FreeBSD and making the transition. Last night, I fired up and installed GhostBSD on a drive and it works well. I really like the nice clean looking interface as a definice Pro, but from what I can see, it also does not use Freshports or the same PKG repository as FreeBSD which is what I have been browsing and learning from which is sort of a Con in this case. Also, it seems that GhostBSD can install the rEFInd boot loaded which runs well too. On the other side of things, I was able to also install the FreeBSD GUI edition (FuryBSD Xfce) which seems to be an exact use of FreeBSD along with the same ports and PKG usage, but with a nice desktop installed on it. I also really like it as well, but had a problem trying to get the bootloader installed and had to manually boot from my bios efi screen since something did not install correctly when it did the auto install. I also tried to manually download and set up the rEFInd bootloader from their site so that I could try to keep the FuryBSD installation,but could not easily figure out what I needed to install and where so I gave up and did another re-installation of the GhostBSD. I may give the FuryBSD a new clean try since I really want to be able to use the standard Freshports and base FreeBSD PKG system as my project is based upon mfsBSD in an effort to setup an ultra-small minimum FreeBSD with some Xserver (xorg-minimal), XFree86, Wayland-based, or some other that is absolutely the smallest of the bunch so that I can just run either a FreeRDP client or VNC client while keeping my mfsBSD as close to the current 30MB size as possible. Later, I will also try to make it even smaller, but right now just to get a very small graphics system on top of the mfsBSD core and add a remote desktop client is the primary goal. Thanks to everyone who has been giving me suggestions and guidance along the way. It's truly appreciated and I am learning a lot so that hopefully soon, I too, can contribute back more to FreeBSD as well. Cheers, Lonnie
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