Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:08:48 -0500 From: "Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola@familycareintl.org> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E4199@www.fcimail.org> In-Reply-To: <20090219104754.a7bd9d6a.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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> Hi all, >=20 > I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the = library > running FreeBSD-=20 >=20 > What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what = config do I > need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will = automatically > launch the desktop gui Both KDE and Gnome should feel pretty familiar to an XP user. The handbook has some useful docs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html See the section about the kde display manager for example. --------------------------------------------------- Ok so I left the machine running over the weekend to install KDE, And when I got in this morning it said that my disk was out of space- I loaded nothing but the basic freebsd os and nothing other than kde = (granted its only a 10 gig drive) but that should be enough for a kde desktop no?
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