From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jul 22 06:01:50 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 B4FDD372966 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 06:01:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacques+freebsd@foucry.net) Received: from mail.foucry.net (fournil.foucry.net [95.217.83.231]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BBPx94XCkz3TPg for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 06:01:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacques+freebsd@foucry.net) Received: from mithril.localdomain (lfbn-dij-1-1446-49.w109-221.abo.wanadoo.fr [109.221.17.49]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-384) server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.foucry.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E6BEA1483D for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 06:01:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mithril (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mithril.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D585111611 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:01:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:01:33 +0200 From: Jacques Foucry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD (GhostBSD) Question? Message-ID: <20200722060133.GA60663@mithril> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BBPx94XCkz3TPg X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=foucry.net; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of jacques@foucry.net designates 95.217.83.231 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=jacques@foucry.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.07 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.02)[-1.020]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; MID_RHS_NOT_FQDN(0.50)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.74)[-0.736]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[foucry.net,none]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.02)[-1.019]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:95.217.0.0/16, country:DE]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; TAGGED_FROM(0.00)[freebsd] 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: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 06:01:50 -0000 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