Gnome & FreeBSD

Roger Olofsson raggen at passagen.se
Wed Aug 22 05:48:48 PDT 2007


Michael S skrev:
> Good day all,
> 
> I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I
> am  considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used
> for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway.
> The reason is that most of my favorite applications
> use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used
> to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I
> wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt)
> by not installing KDE.
> I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it
> polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at
> all?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael
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A while back on this list I read about fluxbox so I decided to try it 
out. I like it very much, it's very lightweight and very flexible. It's 
in the ports tree if you want to have a look.




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