Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:01:33 +0200 From: Jacques Foucry <jacques+freebsd@foucry.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD (GhostBSD) Question? Message-ID: <20200722060133.GA60663@mithril> In-Reply-To: <CAPmsJLC001JNO==5VQoP6vBLzGT1g7L2fKR_ifd0BUSsxWmdAw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPmsJLC001JNO==5VQoP6vBLzGT1g7L2fKR_ifd0BUSsxWmdAw@mail.gmail.com>
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Le mardi 21 juil. 2020 à 18:52:14 (-0400), Lonnie Cumberland à écrit: Hello, > 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. May be take a chance to nomadBSD (https://nomadbsd.org/). I did use it, I made my own laptop installation from FreeBSD. I explain it here (https://adminblog.foucry.net/posts/info/freebsd-thinkpad/)… I know that you did not have time to make your setup :-) Cheers and good luck. -- Jacques Foucry
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