freebsd desktop | mozilla
John Smith
almarrie at gmail.com
Sat Nov 25 08:16:57 PST 2006
On 11/25/06, probsd org <probsdorg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm a long time proponent of FreeBSD as a server. For a long time I've really wanted a FreeBSD system as a desktop. So, I decided to install the FreeBSD 6.2 and compile xorg, gnome, mozilla, etc... to give it a whirl.
>
> For anyone reading this, who wants the same thing.
>
> DO NOT DO IT. Nothing works. java is borked, mozilla and firefox are borked, gnome is ify.... ugh.
>
> Just dont do it. As a server, I highly recommend it... but it isn't ready for the desktop.
>
If you don't know how to setup it, just got for DesktopBSD, or PC-BSD 1.3 Beta.
Thank you,
-J
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