Desktop Install Option

Peter Cornelius pcc at gmx.net
Wed Aug 19 07:17:06 UTC 2009


Hi,

> So, I've been wondering about something.  FreeBSD is a general purpose
> operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used
> on
> servers.  Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation,
> something similar to say Debian's option of "Standard Desktop"?  For those
> who need it, it'd be great.

Not sure what you are looking for but I have a feeling that it may be something like

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/desktopbsd-tools/pkg-descr
http://desktopbsd.net/

Rgds,

Peter.
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