From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jul 22 15:22:46 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 558E237F1D8 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:22:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pathiaki2@yahoo.com) Received: from sonic303-21.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (sonic303-21.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [66.163.188.147]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BBfNP44mwz4Klv for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:22:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pathiaki2@yahoo.com) X-YMail-OSG: RpyupLcVM1nBkuUFLHpt237dH3SsBZ7bAsuYcG1FIULwfmSYTXSxYwdnXa4teSe 5iiQEcV2IzoUlCGXFnU_hZG7h9C0ClyIsCh9wYrShhYQ6UDxnuzCQNRah_r9vEqXiHaR7IrEfK.V Z_MkZHrY.OPcFtbPreJIm2n_cXzHOI2JGzXgvBeCK4g9HhCVq4JagI_2rplMMk87u4XINIxFPWff BsQ8qvHsZGJEnwWdtAIFJGCTXqKZJbcXDeY7LxdVYcUt1wXpbQuWG..Kg0B6.M5jzNUaFRBEcu0t dVAnULPmDDY76xLlhIX7aUIvv8FTeBoMOLH4LpaDdQ1n0uik4VGPJyCdTY7JUElEArwZQNbCc_07 G0TAWciFssNvtR.1fSjpPEdj2iYT65_LA9XHZz1aNb_iuQ2lHwft5b0CeaWSGIIMXhj8FmSN.GFW lZLWVNUL1.3y3n7k6OCcT2jsveVAk6BLunuRhfuFKskvtowocoAHgy22j3PHzIUZX7vEwO7v2qDk MJtnHvVnp4qkntqIMw.KLVGW8hwQD.m0Yx2O.rOEBjPg88M6xiHymbDL_Z6bCoSgyS8lee8w_9MI yNF0pSUCnBFu6tszY6g37FHXCYmkr5mMJ0udCTPXAwleKSzQ.zOEuKanrF5f5HLbOrmMuxC9Ir.H tVPzBNF8pII.skag0akbMjn8NyoNxiq7QKrcNhh2RtxZaowhsnKv9y2Yqh9at1AckzCzdUIud6fh QP6CaHf9Uqk_LsIlM6t29TSYlycoxxb2ruq.9F_vUDHGXqUW2iGJJe3IFfFYQy7yMeLlx38..f2X EO_c8SwHax0Lfi8tWEcElU0wtNC7_qJarTxJzYMkQ5e7MqEF4imGcUxiaaUMyoJAAgqszhB3yuxA ciBG1WxPAZVjU2w_Rr54TSuFCiXWIYKj2B7FVgdMqu.FGSivmdO3YjM2dvMycbB0pi9G8aBP5IEn JP6WVUR6kXL8BxStVfhQlyPJl6aHB_AHDo31gC4KIXCs4COqptnZtgIv38J1nHBcg76Iw6nWnu3p 8fG6RQb.zEO4PdGFmJvBsqMh2xqFjPWgIV_.iGTHRkQuqVdN3jnsRhc04jmyeTX.gwcSH35duVXE UY8O3HwPmO6B.rtuBwwA87rIXXL4WeYPlH1vVlCz5WgAjxYafIMGsUHx_L99H5NzWI0cZ6QIQwmS FP5SygKbCWQ22mjCbBjTcf.sHKrboU_NlcrlyyukL4xfnqjOALC6jQHkaRBYSikW450GvxD2WXoi FAFvGOA2cEvzjWg.AlUIQeTXOHsvmLNAJF27xjZfghAuC1HBlxPm_AyjqEY4N5nQJKmar5FdBQ2a z9.la346OPFWr61tfJFpj2GkRlb.TMg3CQqKiqlo- Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic303.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with HTTP; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:22:44 +0000 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:22:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Pathiakis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Lonnie Cumberland Message-ID: <1720589882.5509006.1595431360144@mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD (GhostBSD) Question? MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.16271 YMailNorrin Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.100 Safari/537.36 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BBfNP44mwz4Klv X-Spamd-Bar: -- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.68 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[yahoo.com:s=s2048]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[66.163.188.147:from]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[yahoo.com]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ptr:yahoo.com]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.01)[-1.007]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.98)[-0.982]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[yahoo.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[66.163.188.147:from]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.69)[-0.695]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[yahoo.com,reject]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:36646, ipnet:66.163.184.0/21, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[yahoo.com]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[yahoo.com:dkim] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.33 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 15:22:46 -0000 Hi Lonnie, GhostBSD is FreeBSD running a MATE Desktop. Yes, it's incredibly stable.=C2=A0 Yes, it's well designed and implemented.= =C2=A0 Yes, as my 80+ y.o. mother-in-law will tell you, it's easy to use.= =C2=A0 (I don't have to spend 1-3 hours removing malware, spyware and virus= es on the Windoze desktop she used to have.=C2=A0 (She went from PC-BSD, to= TrueOS to GhostBSD over the last 7 years....=C2=A0 and my life has been wo= nderful when visiting since.... :D ) SO... kudos to their team.=C2=A0 It prompts when it finds updates necessary= and it's so very useful in finding, installing, removing software via thei= r 'software station'. Yes, I'm a big fan. Paul On Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 6:52:35 PM EDT, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: =20 =20 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. Cheers, Lonnie _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " =20 From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jul 22 16:36:49 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 91CA83588D2 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:36:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [174.136.98.114]) (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-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BBh1q6rSLz4QBq for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:36:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.160] (cpe-23-243-161-111.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.161.111]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 336d1e4b (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: FreeBSD (GhostBSD) Question? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20200722060133.GA60663@mithril> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 09:36:40 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200722060133.GA60663@mithril> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BBh1q6rSLz4QBq X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pete@nomadlogic.org designates 174.136.98.114 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pete@nomadlogic.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.05 / 15.00]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(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]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.09)[0.091]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.84)[-0.838]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.10)[0.097]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; ASN(0.00)[asn:25795, ipnet:174.136.96.0/20, country:US]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[23.243.161.111:received] 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 16:36:49 -0000 On 7/21/20 11:01 PM, Jacques Foucry wrote: > 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 :-) oh yea - nomadBSD is awesome too!  It's saved me a couple time as well.  It runs fast well from a USB thumb drive. cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA