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PC-BSD: FreeBSD For Dummies
PC-BSD: FreeBSD For Dummies
Posted Nov 24, 2005 12:19 UTC (Thu) by leandro (guest, #1460)Parent article: PC-BSD: FreeBSD For Dummies
To truly reach the end user, it would need to sport KDE and something like synaptic, or perhaps a graphical binary ports system. KDE is too complicated, as is downloading packages as a separate step from installation.
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PC-BSD: FreeBSD For Dummies
Posted Nov 29, 2005 8:18 UTC (Tue) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624) [Link]
Er, the review said that it installed KDE 3.4.3 by default, and had abinary ports system..
PC-BSD: FreeBSD For Dummies
Posted Nov 29, 2005 8:20 UTC (Tue) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624) [Link]
D'oh, I missed the word "graphical" in your comment about the binary portssystem, sorry!
Still, this is only the RC for their first release, give them time.. :-)
PC-BSD: FreeBSD For Dummies
Posted May 12, 2006 20:54 UTC (Fri) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]
the review said that it installed KDE 3.4.3 by default
Obviously I meant Gnome.
PC-BSD: FreeBSD For Dummies
Posted Dec 13, 2005 22:36 UTC (Tue) by ajsiegel (guest, #34517) [Link]
Installing KDE from ports collection is easy it automatically downloadsall the dependent packages source or binary versions. I usually compile
from source I just type at the prompt
cd /usr/x11/kde3 && make install
and go to bed, it is ready in morning.
For while I was subscribed to the gnucash maillist to and every upgrade
the list was flooded by Red Hat user having install problems, something I
did not experience with FreeBSD.