At 08:10 AM 8/2/2005 +0200, Karel Miklav wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
