From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 17:58:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1955937B43C for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA2B7A for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 02:57:59 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 141; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:00:42 +1000 Message-ID: <39AEFF2D.4A7B3349@S1.com> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 11:58:21 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derek Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a GUI? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Derek, > > I read wonderful things about FreeBSD. I want to use it as a web server if believe all the wonderful things you've read - they're true :') As for its use as a web-server - it will serve you long and reliably. > it is easy to use. Does FreeBSD have a graphical user interface? The short answer is "no". Not in the manner that say, MacOS is (pretty much) a GUI-only OS. However, all is not lost - XFree86 (a free X-Window implementation) comes to the rescue, and is compatable with a wide variety of video cards. Using X, you can add various GUI's to FreeBSD, although typically, X is used in a 'workstation' situation rather than a 'server' situation. So the long answer to the question is "yes" :') hth, Harry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message