PCBSD? On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Andrew Berg <aberg010 at my.hennepintech.edu> wrote: > On 2014.07.05 16:23, Brian Wood wrote: > > Then I ran startxfce4. It brought up the desktop, but I can't > > move the mouse and it doesn't seem to take anything from > > the keyboard. I read that Gnome wasn't very stable on > > FreeBSD. > Getting X up and running on vanilla FreeBSD can be a pain. > There's a page in the handbook that outlines how to get it > going, but it needs updating. > There is stuff going on right now to use newer Xorg and > KMS drivers for Intel and AMD integrated GPUs. It's > default on the -STABLE and -CURRENT branches, but > there's a package repo with stuff built for it that you can > use on -RELEASE if you want to try it: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-July/001570.html > > In any case, if you want a nice desktop system with all > the ugliness worked out and where things will just work, > I recommend PC-BSD. They've done a bunch of work > to make a desktop environment just work. FWIW, > OpenBSD might be worth looking at too since they > have made desktop stuff more of a priority (and they > have their own fork of X in the base system). > > GNOME 3 is full of linuxisms, so it's been a slow > process for non-Linux systems. PC-BSD and OpenBSD > have it working AFAIK. > > FreeBSD does a lot of things very well, but desktop > bits have historically not been a huge priority. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140706/593e5724/attachment.html>