From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 6:57:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7232437B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:57:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E397E43E77 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:57:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MyRaQ@mgm51.com) Received: from ntmm (unknown [63.119.50.193]) by home.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A172B27E for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:57:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <200208220957130943.03DBA7D0@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <3D64DE38.3080406@iac.unibe.ch> References: <3D64DE38.3080406@iac.unibe.ch> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (1) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:57:13 -0400 Reply-To: myraq@mgm51.com From: "MikeM" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Disappointed with FreeBSD 4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8/22/02 at 2:51 PM Martin Lozada wrote: >Dear Poeple, > >I installed FreeBSD 4.6 on my computer few days ago. I chose as desktop >Gnome+sawfish. No problems during the installation but after it began >the nightmare. I finally got running startx and what I got was a gnome >desktop without icons . Nautilus didn't start, due to an unexpected >error. The error has to do with OAF. I think it's just the beginning. I >think I wait for a better version of FreeBSD before performing a new >installation. ============= A GUI is not the OS. Your problem is with Gnome, not FreeBSD. Talk with the Gnome folk and let them know that they have work to do on their product so that it runs better on FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message