From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 10 13:14:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED0C16A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:14:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90F343D2F for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:14:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i9ADEJ7X050476 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:14:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)i9ADEJnp050475; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:14:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:14:19 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Roger Brittain Message-ID: <20041010131419.GA50364@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Roger Brittain , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AqsLC8rIMeq19msA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:14:20 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040904, clamav-milter version 0.75l on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:14:26 -0000 --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBaTWriD657aJF7eIRAhu9AJ0S3iBsJo+RSCq9VHfS/lcqXlMBzACeNgK9 UoQvEWITX+NYgmr2Z0/aA+E= =v4w6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA--