desktop app/config

[Jean-Paul Natola]

Wish I would have seen that before I started this KDE install 2 hours ago

Thx will look into it too

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Kinsey [mailto:kdk at daleco.biz] 
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:12 PM
To: Jean-Paul Natola
Cc: Sean Cavanaugh; jerrymc at msu.edu; questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: desktop app/config

Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> What is the "terminology" that I would need to search in the handbook to
get
> a bsd machine to authenticate with AD  I have Mac machines that
authenticate
> to our network- but that's easy to configure

AD=="Active Directory"?

BSD doesn't do that by default.  AFAIK, you'll need to install
and configure SAMBA (which is in ports).

As for the original question, I saw a config by a guy named
Horen (I think, from NW Europe someplace) for FVWM which looked
almost exactly like Windows XP, down to the icons.  There's also
FWVM95, which is supposed to look like Win95.  And, I've not
seen XFWM mentioned yet, which is pretty user friendly and a
tad more lightweight than KDE or Gnome ... which could be important
if you're talking about "recycled" hardware.

My $.02,

Kevin Kinsey