Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:24:54 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gnome3??? no way!!! Message-ID: <942726.59880.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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My limited experience with GNOME 3 is unfavorable. First was from gnome3.org in the early days of GNOME 3. I downloaded .iso and USB-stick images with Fedora and SUSE Linux, tried on an old computer with 256 MB RAM, graphic interface wouldn't start. On newer computer, I had a Linux GNOME USB-stick image with sort of a squashed fs, it sort of worked, but I had a hard time finding my way around. More recently, I tried the OpenBSD 5.3 USB-stick image from liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net . I had a hard time finding my way around. Mouse pointer was invisible but must have been present since active area of desktop changed as I moved the mouse. This OpenBSD couldn't read my hard drive at all, but that was due to OpenBSD's lack of support for GPT. I am trying again, downloaded the OpenBSD 5.4 USB-stick image, 7-zipped (p7zip), extracts into 16000000000 byte file for 16 GB USB stick. I haven't dd'ed it yet, am waiting to see which USB stick to use depending on whether I can update NetBSD-current i386 on a 16 GB USB stick without problems with that particular USB stick. If not satisfied, I will write OpenBSD 5.4 image to that and use another 16 GB USB stick for NetBSD-current i386 if it builds successfully. This is largely to see how the wireless drivers behave (rsu and athn) and if it has some useful firmware files. I don't expect a productive system without support for GPT and USB 3.0. Tom
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