Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:14:19 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Roger Brittain <rdbrittain@msn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20041010131419.GA50364@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <BAY4-DAV8A2QUg6A7oP00002a1d@hotmail.com> References: <BAY4-DAV8A2QUg6A7oP00002a1d@hotmail.com>
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On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:49:09AM +0100, Roger Brittain wrote:
> is there a desktop version for non tech people?
There's only one distribution of FreeBSD, and it makes no allowances
for complete neophytes, or those utterly terrified of the command
line. However, it's probably not as hard as you might think to get
going with it. If you read the Handbook, and can cope with the
instructions there, you shouldn't have too much trouble installing the
system.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
There's a choice of desktop environments, all based on X windoes. KDE
and Gnome are the two most popular. However, whichever one of those
you choose will have to be installed additionally to the OS from
FreeBSD's extensive ports/packages collection. For guidance as to
which X environment or window manager you might choose, see:
http://www.xwinman.org/
Finally, if you just want a no-hassle taster of the system, try
FreesBIE, which gives you FreeBSD on a bootable CDRom:
http://www.freesbie.org/
Cheers,
Matthew
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