Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 09:45:08 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD (GhostBSD) Question? Message-ID: <b1166d38-0e83-a6e5-77df-1025e60af5cb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1720589882.5509006.1595431360144@mail.yahoo.com> References: <CAPmsJLC001JNO==5VQoP6vBLzGT1g7L2fKR_ifd0BUSsxWmdAw@mail.gmail.com> <1720589882.5509006.1595431360144@mail.yahoo.com>
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On 7/22/20 8:22 AM, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions wrote: > Hi Lonnie, > GhostBSD is FreeBSD running a MATE Desktop. > Yes, it's incredibly stable. Yes, it's well designed and implemented. Yes, as my 80+ y.o. mother-in-law will tell you, it's easy to use. (I don't have to spend 1-3 hours removing malware, spyware and viruses on the Windoze desktop she used to have. (She went from PC-BSD, to TrueOS to GhostBSD over the last 7 years.... and my life has been wonderful when visiting since.... :D ) > SO... kudos to their team. It prompts when it finds updates necessary and it's so very useful in finding, installing, removing software via their 'software station'. > Yes, I'm a big fan. > Paul > > On Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 6:52:35 PM EDT, Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> wrote: > > 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. Okay, so I bit. Manish, I started using your 'mkdesktop', but I stopped. No matter what I do, it wants to give me all kinds of what the Doze world calls 'accessories'. GhostBSD seems to want to do the same thing. MATE is every bit as fat as Ubuntu! I want an intermediate step where I can choose what to add after the desktop is installed. I don't see that any of these GUI installers help a whole bunch for what I want. I can see their usefulness for those who come from the Doze or Mac -- or even Ubuntu -- worlds, but that's not where I want to go. I'll just do it the old-fashioned way because I want to know what's getting installed. -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * ****************************************************
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