freebsd desktop | mozilla

Simon Phoenix phoenix.lists at gmail.com
Sun Nov 26 12:11:09 PST 2006


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 03:41:11PM -0800, probsd org 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.

I`m using FreeBSD as desktop since 5.0. It works fine.

- --
Best regards,
Simon Phoenix (Phoenix Lab.)
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
KeyID: 0x2569D30B
Fingerprint: 78FC 5C40 07CC D331 148E CC79 84B8 D514 2569 D30B
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFFaeq5hLjVFCVp0wsRCl7zAJ94Ohi6bgznvfM3Mpd6bvDCFwCCYgCgtcwx
geP6tk9BDfb9itKfVea7flo=
=lJXK
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list