Gnome & FreeBSD

NetOpsCenter noc at hdk5.net
Thu Aug 23 20:35:54 PDT 2007


Michael S wrote:

>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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You may want to look at XFCE which many of the FreeBSD people use as a 
GUI.  Lean and efective.

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