FreeBSD desktop?
Erich Dollansky
oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Mon Aug 1 11:56:22 GMT 2005
Hi,
ray at redshift.com wrote:
> broad understanding of how Unix handles windows. I get the impression there is
> a server that deals with windows called X windows and then there are different
> desktop managers (such as KDE, Gnome, etc) - but I don't understand the
> interplay between them and the Kernel as it relates to how I normally see FreeBSD.
>
> I'm wondering if someone can give me an overview?
A very simple model would be
FreeBSD is the base
X offers the services for the GIU
GNOME or KDE offer the real GIU.
>
> I'm also wondering if I'm barking up the wrong tree. I know Mac uses Darwin,
> which is based on BSD. And in the past, I have loaded up Redhat and SUSE and
> ended up with a nice desktop - but with FreeBSD I didn't have much luck, even
Did you simply miss the installation of one of the desktops.
Take GNOME or KDE for a start and try out later the simpler thing like
XFCE, blackbox ...
> though I installed just about everything on the install CD's. From what I could
> see, there were a ton of things to configure, but I couldn't find any good
> documentation on setting up my monitor or what the heck was going on overall -
> even in my BSD books, not a lot of help.
>
X is not part of FreeBSD. X is just a normal application running on FreeBSD.
> Anyway, any help anyone can provide would be great? I just feel like I'm
No problem.
If I understood you right, GNOME or KDE was all you missed.
Install one of them and ask again afteward.
> Kernel. And like I say, as much as I would like to make this all happen on
> FreeBSD, it seems like Linux maybe is a better choice?
>
There is no real difference as GNOME and KDE are just a normal
application for both FreeBSD and Linux.
Erich
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