Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:25:25 -0700 From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: "Dan Allen" <danallen46@airwired.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content Message-ID: <a9f4a3860809031925p71b540dbha21b870336c8a8a0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net>
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Google for freesbie, or perhaps PC-BSD On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> wrote: > BACKGROUND: > > A few years ago one could get a FreeBSD CD and install X and get a decent > basic system from one CD. > > One can still do this with Ubuntu today as well. > > Why can't we have a small window manager like icewm along with Firefox 3.0+ > be among the packages on the first FreeBSD CD so a basic working system with > a web browser can be a default install? Is it that X.org is now too big? > > I have been a FreeBSD user/builder for more than a decade because of > /usr/src/make - complete sources and a beautiful build system, but I must > admit that Ubuntu has done a great job of modern hardware detection and > providing a nice useable system out of the box. I wish we could join both > worlds in a future BSD release. (I crashed Ubuntu 8.04 in the first day so > I still prefer BSD to Linux.) > > Also, and I am sure I am not the only one with one of these, my new $500 > Dell Inspiron 1525 is not supported well by BSD RELENG_7: the Intel 4965 > wireless and the Marvell 88E80xx Ethernet are both NOT supported so I have a > great new laptop which cannot connect to the outside world with BSD. :-( > Ubuntu supports these and lots more. > > SUMMARY: > > I would like to see FreeBSD 7.1 add to its disc1: > > 1) X.org > 2) icewm > 3) firefox-3.0 > 4) support for Intel 4965 wireless drivers > 5) support for Marvell 88E8040 ethernet driver > > Dan Allen > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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