From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 08:53:43 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 CAEA416A4D0 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:53:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from gregale.emea.mci.com (gregale.wcom.co.uk [193.131.254.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD59E43D53 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip.payne@uk.mci.com) Received: from breen ([166.59.191.248] helo=breen.emea.mci.com) by gregale.emea.mci.com with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1AhAkV-0000hZ-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:53:39 +0000 Received: from [170.127.79.25] (helo=gblon1exch06.uk.mcilink.com) by breen.emea.mci.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AhAkV-0000UV-Bf for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:53:39 +0000 Received: by gblon1exch06.uk.mcilink.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:53:13 -0000 Message-ID: From: Philip Payne To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:53:11 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Spam-Score: 1.1 (+) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AhAkV-0000hZ-00*APhgZbvFgrk* Subject: RE: NEWBIE QUESTION 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: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:53:43 -0000 > I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome > GUI already > installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more > user friendly > in the future? Like any newbie I heartily recommend reading through the "handbook" under the documentation section of www.freebsd.org . I believe this has a good section on installing X and selecting a window manager. Also read the sections on updating source and buildworld, this will keep your system up to date. There's some good FreeBSD tutorials at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 worth working through. Also, as well as ports being your friend I've found the utility "portupgrade" under /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade highly useful for managing my installed packages. Lastly, this list has always been welcoming when I've asked dumb questions and not full of trolls or people with superiority complexes unlike other open source lists (thanks). Good luck, Phil.