From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 17:16:03 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6D5597 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:16:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-da0-f48.google.com (mail-da0-f48.google.com [209.85.210.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EFB71 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-da0-f48.google.com with SMTP id k18so842255dae.35 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:16:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Ac2PErKyjKCBkJML9qFt4fuRn6XypFE9fYg4eiydku4=; b=alVyDmd70ApphibHcAggSYopqwkkHkMl/z0UZx++GNxvfIesJ4/EZDoe0tAOtX9+e5 C6ydpUECFMHHaRYfrl01qz7txbLsLzAobiS+aRl5my0j+3Bd5Ejjaq7bcy+PS8aTxYnA YjBfyJ+fapSfEXVbKCxhvhmDWkmoIKyvOGkyq3L41bT/YGan0GfE9oPUO+ALff0h6Dkt sq8zTDjtimUyIKqz+IADUrmerSVlYCWccadOqD2iMUDw61Tj5wcYdzW/SllMjdyor4kB j2Pjo36sIawYnYppfwDEZ3xWmSWT5JMdu7rRQA0J98Xcyg4P9JNB5Fwp3edYZaTADL5O Fs2w== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.189.163 with SMTP id gj3mr212704126pbc.110.1357751762927; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:16:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.2.65 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:16:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:16:02 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GNOME 3 Support From: Kevin Oberman To: eHitam Technologies Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:16:03 -0000 On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:31 PM, eHitam Technologies wrote: > Hello! What is the condition of GNOME 3 on FreeBSD? I read of some 'hacks' > like this- http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=14811 > > I am a 3 year Fedora and Ubuntu (GNOME 3) user. I have long addiction to > GNOME 3. In FreeBSD only GNOME 2 is visibly available. Is there any way to > get GNOME 3? Are hacks I just posted above are stable enough? Stability as > I am a programmer and have important binaries and source code stored. I can > recover source code easily as all backups are automatically stored at my > remote server, but re compiling all the binaries and getting all the > compilers to work again is a pain. Gnome3 is available from the FreeBSD Gnome development repo on marcuscom. Last report was that it was being held up awaiting the release of FreeBSD 9.1, but that has now happened, so I expect thatit will be committed to ports soon. For more information, like accessing the marcuscom repo, see http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com