Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:50:03 -0400 From: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org>, Michael Johnson <ahze@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Helping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto more desktops Message-ID: <484E6A6B.6080303@pcbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <484DA93B.70104@freebsd.org> References: <1212956773.92272.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <b2203fed0806081935s59b2cd8t5865f20e8ee6d3f4@mail.gmail.com> <20080609121047.467267lugai59y0w@webmail.leidinger.net> <11167f520806091351s7f6e520bjbbe9622f9ea3a9ae@mail.gmail.com> <484DA93B.70104@freebsd.org>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >> I am all for the Idea of considering PC-BSD FreeBSD's Officially >> supported Desktop. >> >> I assume that is what we are aiming for here. one thing I am a little >> confused about though. > > We're aiming for giving PC-BSD users a choice of desktop (at least > that's what my PBI aims to do). We're not trying to change PC-BSD, just > leverage what they have already created for people who would like a > GNOME desktop. > This is something that I've been asked about a fair amount. Lots of people love PC-BSD, but want to be able to run Gnome on it before they'll commit. (And most of them don't want to compile themselves). By having a PBI available of Gnome, we can now offer BSD desktops to a different segment of the community which are Gnome enthusiasts. One thing I mentioned to Joe is possibly with the next version of PC-BSD later this summer, we could offer the Gnome PBI on our ISO / CDs, that way during the install a user could choose "Gnome" to have it available right at first boot. This may help further satisfy a need in the community, where a user could have a Gnome desktop setup in just a few minutes. >> >> Kris more mentioned to me once that, one of the reasons why >> portupgrade -ar would not work well on PC-BSD is because, hal was >> patched. I am not sure of the details. but could we pull this patch >> back into FreeBSD , so that portupgrade -ar would not mess up PC-BSD? > > PC-BSD uses the ports collection at this point. The patch to which he > referred was pulled into the official hal port. > Correct, once that patch was pulled into HAL then PC-BSD became just regular ports again, nothing stopping you from modifying to your hearts content. -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software http://www.pcbsd.com
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