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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Interesting, i just goggled pcbsd and
it is maintained by the ixsystems guys, the same guys who bring
primary contributors to freenas. But I could swear freenas is
built on freebsd. I teach the freenas classes :)<br>
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linda<br>
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On 7/6/14, 3:15 PM, Samael Anon wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Andrew
Berg <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div class="">On <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="tel:2014.07.05%2016" value="+12014070516">2014.07.05
16</a>:23, Brian Wood wrote:<br>
> Then I ran startxfce4. It brought up the desktop,
but I can't<br>
> move the mouse and it doesn't seem to take anything
from<br>
> the keyboard. I read that Gnome wasn't very stable
on<br>
> FreeBSD.<br>
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Getting X up and running on vanilla FreeBSD can be a pain.<br>
There's a page in the handbook that outlines how to get it<br>
going, but it needs updating.<br>
There is stuff going on right now to use newer Xorg and<br>
KMS drivers for Intel and AMD integrated GPUs. It's<br>
default on the -STABLE and -CURRENT branches, but<br>
there's a package repo with stuff built for it that you can<br>
use on -RELEASE if you want to try it:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-July/001570.html"
target="_blank">http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-July/001570.html</a><br>
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In any case, if you want a nice desktop system with all<br>
the ugliness worked out and where things will just work,<br>
I recommend PC-BSD. They've done a bunch of work<br>
to make a desktop environment just work. FWIW,<br>
OpenBSD might be worth looking at too since they<br>
have made desktop stuff more of a priority (and they<br>
have their own fork of X in the base system).<br>
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GNOME 3 is full of linuxisms, so it's been a slow<br>
process for non-Linux systems. PC-BSD and OpenBSD<br>
have it working AFAIK.<br>
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FreeBSD does a lot of things very well, but desktop<br>
bits have historically not been a huge priority.<br>
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