Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 13:38:26 +0100 From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> To: ezekiel motta <ezekielmotta017@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <f69fa7da-f58b-5678-80b3-c984190e364b@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAMGoz4Vus=gQHY4CH2kmaX7Q19GawG084sk1dLvtUEHVa0v=VQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMGoz4Vus=gQHY4CH2kmaX7Q19GawG084sk1dLvtUEHVa0v=VQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Welcome :-) On 17/07/2021 13:18, ezekiel motta wrote: > Hello FreeBSD Foundation Contact details for the Foundation: <https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/contact-us/>; > … NomadBSD/GhostBSD/, but I would prefer to install FreeBSD > from the people that have developed FreeBSD. I do not like forks, > I think they are a bit parasitical. … Things such as GhostBSD are not parasitical, please see (for example): <https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/what-is-freebsd/>; – I'll request addition of NomadBSD. > If you offered a simple installer (download image, burnt it on > usb flash drive and install it, done, finito) I believe many > many more people would use FreeBSD. … True. Realistically: we should not expect developers of FreeBSD, which does not include a desktop environment, to provide and maintain an image with a desktop environment. It's simply out of scope. Desktop environments, window managers and so on are ported. For each port, there's a maintainer. FreshPorts is our friend: <https://www.freshports.org/>; Community works in progress include this, which should work if a disk (written from Samuel Venable's image) is used to boot a real machine: <https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/81030/>; <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/faq/>; should explain why FreeBSD does not distribute images with desktop environments, although I reckon that the book of answers to frequently asked questions is already too long. Elsewhere there are many discussions of the rationale. Two of the more recent discussions: <https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/nv5xls/-/>; <https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/78639/>; Kind regards Graham (former user of Mac OS X)
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