From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 15:58:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03514106566B for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:58:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mh@kernel32.de) Received: from crivens.kernel32.de (crivens.terrorteam.de [81.169.171.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD198FC1F for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:58:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mh@kernel32.de) Received: from www.terrorteam.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crivens.kernel32.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B009B02A4; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:58:46 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:58:46 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer To: Passive PROFITS In-Reply-To: <966774.35282.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <966774.35282.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <781f856e78dd8a783d203c4177674c64@localhost> X-Sender: mh@kernel32.de User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-rc2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Update - & thanks! :) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:58:48 -0000 Hi, On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:09:41 -0700 (PDT), Passive PROFITS 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