Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:11:39 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter <noc@hdk5.net> To: Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gnome & FreeBSD Message-ID: <46C8EA4B.6010001@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: <545941.20720.qm@web88311.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <545941.20720.qm@web88311.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
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Michael S wrote: >Good day all, > >I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I >am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used >for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. >The reason is that most of my favorite applications >use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used >to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I >wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) >by not installing KDE. >I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it >polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at >all? > >Thanks in advance, >Michael >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > You may want to look at XFCE which many of the FreeBSD people use as a GUI. Lean and efective. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + noc@hdk5.net + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol
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