From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 11:43:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B1916A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:43:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cyberworldservers.net (mailmta.e-insites.com [66.206.0.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA4A43D48 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from corsis@epnix.com) Received: from phoenix ([129.44.155.140]) by mailservices.e-insites.com with MailEnable ESMTP; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:43:37 -0700 From: "Corsis" To: "'Newbies@BSD'" Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:43:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Thread-Index: AcQfJGEBBWiZs809Sq+5HqPgUcnKLAABZeYg In-Reply-To: <407833E0.9040708@cs.uiowa.edu> Message-Id: <20040410184350.4FA4A43D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: The FreeBSD Xperience X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:43:50 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jason Dusek > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 1:50 PM > To: Newbies@BSD > Subject: The FreeBSD Xperience > > Then I found another, better machine - one of the casualties of our > transfer from SPARC to i386. It had been one of the test cases for 1386 > Solaris, and Bob just hadn't been able to make it work quite right... I > talked them into letting me have it. I got X to work, and fooled around > with Window Maker for awhile until I decided to get GNOME. Then my > troubles really began. After I had a GNOME configuration that I really > liked, I just copied all my .gnome* files into /usr/shar/skel/. Then I > added some new users. This is not a good idea though, because, as I > later found out, the .gnome* files have your home directory hard coded > into them for whatever reason. But it worked for awhile. I enabled > GDM, and then all hell broke loose. I spent several days blowing away > all my users, and then putting them back again. It turns out that there > was some evil config left over in, of all places, /var/tmp. Someday I > would like to write a script that 'exports' my config files properly. [Micheal Peters] I've had X up and running with KDE a few times. But with my current install, I'm holding off installing X until I have a chance to really read how the whole thing interacts with the OS. From what I understand X is a bear all to itself :) > I have been reading 'FreeBSD Unleashed' to help me through the install > on the second machine, and I'm at about the middle of the book. Soon > I'll setup mail and Apache. Ahaha! I've gone mad with the power (to > serve)! [Micheal Peters] I've been hearing a lot about this book. In my library, I have Absolute BSD, seems to be an ok book. But I've been thinking about getting the Unleashed one, Different views on the same subject seems to be a good thing at time :)