From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jul 21 22:52:28 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251B636A059 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2020 22:52:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lonnie@outstep.com) Received: from mail-io1-xd30.google.com (mail-io1-xd30.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::d30]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "GTS CA 1O1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BBDPl01BBz4Mfc for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2020 22:52:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lonnie@outstep.com) Received: by mail-io1-xd30.google.com with SMTP id c16so105503ioi.9 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:52:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=outstep-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=Hh1fIaUoRc8rHa62RdVVrxSEt1OV/No4QlHtdw5+wjQ=; b=epzwbufsTbmSltAA9KLaI4qfgi8s9o5Uh5SrlK5nBH6l1xZP0dTEbcxxELomxr1ceY rGRMTmwQJMygaFRIZiKpIBy43ZrWYFIT/RnGa6BfNF10p/xS24ZsbqojH/6d2rBqC+sN mDxK1dEhXiLNwDATrtZ/z7MjERw7FpeHfTNFbE0tza59TXZVIIW+9CCDLSotp0aHoVLk 89yEleAnK2cYFAtFqxMtBwUy7jS1jIUarAlYzrQtycYsaIuyfiiIWfbl8rA5PrVApGx4 lv2EM8k/XVd/BgG+Fapbi/XPSNf4+rKz9WfZG27z1DjagFwQpHbFRKq2Lw0ZkrAulSvj wXdg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=Hh1fIaUoRc8rHa62RdVVrxSEt1OV/No4QlHtdw5+wjQ=; b=bN59Z8bcVYzMdUlMBq9OWT5V/ffvoMFEFxRVlPmkGw85hugKliVyVVz7k7NyweBRnR t7NwaV85fLgQSWopX/HsLadGQ+Pal4ghQmI0Ob539QmTpSO3ibjv/ox5JIw1H77QdHxR +1+0sJELL9v0GCDCHMZQEMafUmdZySauI4v5JybX4bJhuDT28aK23Ea3OWnOgtFI/pgu SYXblHiFgSy5tYnoYktW/ubfDoEfqHDZbEe8RcrE43D4of3gW+JDGInPXmOelMmL9mwK uZCUKg6VcvWa5I3ZdSMpT0S8r9pwyQH7Dcl7O/KY2erjU3aInAk/fPzntc/JjOexo6Xv AjXA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531f/J7kpj1z3cbNhk5pywvanMs/e3wWCAGHaTOr4OLMLVmLSbiq 7BI+vJA6g092NROH631JG3lsgSHQJaiLDih96K6L7v9W3A3TeQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwimnYByERgVy5CxJVB0e4qer4wxWDpsIz8OvuzSqUI0uHDDjW+bf2K45tXZBkLfz5VJPGgrfwhqcmjzqft71I= X-Received: by 2002:a6b:7107:: with SMTP id q7mr29587219iog.86.1595371945402; Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:52:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Lonnie Cumberland Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:52:14 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: FreeBSD (GhostBSD) Question? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BBDPl01BBz4Mfc X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=outstep-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.s=20150623 header.b=epzwbufs; dmarc=fail reason="No valid SPF, DKIM not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=outstep.com (policy=none); spf=softfail (mx1.freebsd.org: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::d30 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of lonnie@outstep.com) smtp.mailfrom=lonnie@outstep.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.72 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.05)[-0.050]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[outstep-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com:s=20150623]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.60)[-0.599]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; R_SPF_SOFTFAIL(0.00)[~all]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.57)[0.573]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[outstep-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com:+]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::d30:from]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; DMARC_POLICY_SOFTFAIL(0.10)[outstep.com : No valid SPF, DKIM not aligned (relaxed), none] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.33 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 22:52:28 -0000 Greeting All, Although I am committed to now taking the plunge and go all of the way with the FreeBSD platform, I wanted to get a FreeBSD distro flavor that already had a desktop and I could just install while I work on this current FreeBSD related project that I am doing now. With that in mind, here is what I tried. 1. FreeBSD 12.1 (core iso) --- This one boos up great on my hardware but seems like it will take a bit of work to get a graphical environment setup, which I can do, but time is short right now. 2. FuryBSD --- This is supposed to basically be FreeBSD 12.1 with a graphical environment already setup, but for some reason, bot the KDR and XFCE (amd64) ISO's would not completely boot up and went to a blank screen. I could not even login on a non-graphical console. Strange. 3. GhostBSD --- This one also seems like they took the FreeBSD 12.1 iso and added a graphical frontend since I actually see it saying "Booting FreeBSD 12.1" as it comes up. To my surprise, GhostBSD seems to come up nicely. My question to the mailing list is this. Is it accurate to say that GhostBSD is just FreeBSD with a graphical environment added? I ask, because I want to stay with FreeBSD, but just do not want to spend the time right now setting up the GUI and fine tuning, so I am taking the lazy way for the time being and will come back at a later time to do a fresh FreeBSD install from scratch. Cheers, Lonnie