Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:19:53 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> To: Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content Message-ID: <d10418f33f2f2cbf97aa6e1efc08b01f@localhost> In-Reply-To: <650D6892-6372-44A2-957F-B049E70DB881@airwired.net>
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Hi Dan, On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:45:00 -0600, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> wrote: > > You may be interested to know, however, that some people ALSO use it > as a desktop system. ;-) > I second that! :) I for one really love FreeBSD on a server, 'cause it has a (to me) perfect setup of tools to use on a command line. On the other hand, guess what, since I'm administrating some FreeBSD boxes (and a whole lot more debian boxes too), my Desktop is a FreeBSD machine. > In the Standard Install there should be an option that says "Install > Firefox & Xorg". It should be an OPTIONAL CHECK BOX, not a mandatory > one, but it should allow a desktop scenario to be setup easily. > sounds good to me. > If the disks are near full, or need to be uniform across processors, > or whatever, then I am okay with not having all of X and Firefox on > disc1 IF there was a simple set of "pkg_add -r" commands that could > hidden behind a script or dialog which could fetch the necessary > software over the internet and set it up (along with .conf files so X > starts up reasonably well) so that a non-command line user could have > a good first time experience. > Ah well, create DVD images additionally to the standard iso images. > It was using Ubuntu that caused me to realize how far behind FreeBSD > is on the desktop side, and how, with a SMALL AMOUNT of work and > changes, it could make a big jump forward by this proposed simple > addition. Heck, if nothing else the installer could simply say in a > help screen, "if you want a web browser on your system, type 'pkg_add - > r firefox' on your system and edit blah blah .conf blah". As it > stands right now, however, there is very little in the install process > which helps a user get X up and going with a browser. > There is PC-BSD, FreeBSD based but aims on the desktop to achieve exactly what you said. I'm not sure wether FreeBSD needs to go that road too. Regards, Marianhome | help
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