If you're doing a new install and you're primarily after a desktop experience, go with PC-BSD 9.0 (http://www.pcbsd.org). All the basics are looked after for you, including graphics config, auto-mounting USB drives, wireless ... It has a graphical package installer for PC-BSD "PBI" packages, but it's standard FreeBSD-9.0 and ports under the hood. Perfect on a desktop (could still use some polish for laptop suspend/resume).
Dale > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Walker > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:17 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Using Gnome ... > > A colleague and I were talking about operating systems and I said, hey lets > install FreeBSD and see what Gnome looks like. > I did an install at work but ran out of time so I brought another machine > home but I'm having trouble. > > I burnt an ISO of 9.0 and installed it. > > I did a pkg_add ... > # pkg_add -r gnome2 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11- > wm.html > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1 > > I tried to enable Gnome by editing /etc/rc.conf ... > gdm_enable="YES" > gnome_enable="YES" > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11- > wm.html > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome > Note the difference there. > > If I reboot I get a message to the console that gdm is starting but it goes to a > console login. > > Is there anything else I need to do? > > Best wishes. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
