Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:37:29 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: "Kathy Quinlan" <katinka@magestower.com>, "Sue Blake" <sue@welearn.com.au>, "N6REJ" <n6rej@tcsn.net>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: I'm leaving Message-ID: <003101c0dba1$181a7aa0$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <002b01c0db54$e0febaa0$5599ca3f@disappointment> <20010513171444.E26123@welearn.com.au> <00f401c0db7e$ff3ca2a0$fe00a8c0@kat.lan> <20010513122623.I97034@lpt.ens.fr> <20010513033434.A54250@xor.obsecurity.org>
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I've been thinking of doing something akin to the Pedantic FreeBSD style HOWTO on X ... some sort of really explict documentation with ALL the information needed to get a functional GUI, however I'd need to start from scratch as every FreeBSD system I've had anything to do with has been straight command line. From questions I've been seeing in the questions list, it appears that hardware support is the main issue that creates the bulk of the problems. Who would be the best to advise on some readily available & reasonably priced videocards / chipsets that ALWAYS work without problems ?? eg I've generally stuck with AGP versions of those 8Mb ATI Rage Pro things for both W2K & Solaris systems because I've never had a hint of trouble getting things to work / they give 16 bit 1024x768 easily they are affordable in OZ .... maybe they aren't the best for XFree but surely someone must know a couple of videocards that suit. (and please everyone don't say Matrox because the price in OZ is extortionate !!) > Would it be a good idea to have a "default GUI install" as one of the > install options, which sets up either KDE or GNOME, and a web browser, > and desktop icons for the HTML-ised version of the FreeBSD handbook? Jordan and others have tried many times to get people to submit good, newbie-friendly "default GUI environments", with close to zero community response. Yes, it would be a good idea, SOMEONE PLEASE DO THE WORK! :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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