FreeBSD desktop?

[ray at redshift.com]

At 07:56 PM 8/1/2005 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
| 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

Thanks for the note.  I could have sworn I installed Gnome2 - I will go back
through and try again.  As far as I recall, during the install, I did the kernel
developer - X windows and then under the packages to install, I picked just
about everything relating to KDE or Gnome.  When it booted, I ended up at a
normal login shell, then was unable to figure out how to get Gnome or Xwindows
or anything else up and running.

I was just about to install Xandros, but they require that moronic bit torrent
for downloads.  Where's the ISO I tell ya! :-)

Ray