Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:58:46 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> To: Passive PROFITS <passiveprofits@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Update - & thanks! :) Message-ID: <781f856e78dd8a783d203c4177674c64@localhost> In-Reply-To: <966774.35282.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <966774.35282.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Hi, On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:09:41 -0700 (PDT), Passive PROFITS <passiveprofits@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > First off, I wimped out (shame really) and installed > DesktopBSD as I was already at least 'glance' familiar > with KDE from Ubuntu Linux. This gave me some kde exist in FreeBSD, too :) > > A false start later (messed up the Network Config), I > got a working install of FreeBSD up and running - hip > hip hooray! :) > This happens... sysinstall ain't the nicest tool for a beginner. I did my mistakes back in 1999 too ;) > I've decided there is no use punishing myself so I > have decided to put on a desktop - Gnome. I started > this download/compile/install like about 24 hours ago, > and it's still going strong. Now I understand the > difference between precompiled packages and building > from source, even if only in terms of the time & > resource constraints! :( > as root: pkg_add -r gnome2 should install all gnome packages you need. besides, www.freebsd.org/gnome is a good starting point :) > > NB: nice to notice there is some Linux/BSD overlap in > terms of apps etc; a lot more than I'd realised! ;) > Actually you'll find a lot of applications in FreeBSD ports where you wouldn't find them as a debian package for instance :) Especially in regards to the version of this specific software. Example? Debian Sarge --> No Apache 2.2 FreeBSD had this one ages before :) regards, Marian
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