FreeBSD at the desktop: It didn't make it en

By drm on Saturday 03 October 2009 18:28 - Comments (28)
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It is a sad day. With due pain in my chest, I have decided not to go through with FreeBSD at the desktop. I absolutely love FreeBSD's basic concepts of clean system setup, clearly dividing kernel, base system and userland, and the best documentation I have ever seen on any open source project. So nothing but "kudo's" there, and I will keep using it at my home server, and I will keep supporting it for that purpose. But no, right now, it is not the thing as it comes to the desktop.

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w00t! I made it: FreeBSD + Xorg + Gnome + Compiz Fusion = cool desktop :) en

By drm on Tuesday 15 September 2009 01:21 - Comments (20)
Category: Linux / BSD, Views: 3.483

Here's some joy for me to share, I finally made it today getting FreeBSD with Gnome and Compiz Fusion on a dual screen setup to work exactly as I wanted. And I've got the feeling this is gonna make me consider the definite switch to FreeBSD.

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