10 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-gnomeHelping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto mor...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Joe Marcus Clarke | Jun 8, 2008 8:25 pm | |
| Michael Johnson | Jun 9, 2008 2:35 am | |
| Alexander Leidinger | Jun 9, 2008 10:10 am | |
| Sam Fourman Jr. | Jun 9, 2008 8:50 pm | |
| Joe Marcus Clarke | Jun 9, 2008 10:06 pm | |
| Joe Marcus Clarke | Jun 10, 2008 12:15 am | |
| Joe Marcus Clarke | Jun 10, 2008 12:17 am | |
| Alexander Leidinger | Jun 10, 2008 10:02 am | |
| Kris Moore | Jun 10, 2008 11:49 am | |
| Joe Marcus Clarke | Jun 10, 2008 8:11 pm |
| Subject: | Helping to put FreeBSD GNOME onto more desktops | |
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| From: | Kris Moore (kr...@pcbsd.com) | |
| Date: | Jun 10, 2008 11:49:50 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-gnome | |
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
I am all for the Idea of considering PC-BSD FreeBSD's Officially supported Desktop.
I assume that is what we are aiming for here. one thing I am a little confused about though.
We're aiming for giving PC-BSD users a choice of desktop (at least that's what my PBI aims to do). We're not trying to change PC-BSD, just leverage what they have already created for people who would like a GNOME desktop.
This is something that I've been asked about a fair amount. Lots of people love PC-BSD, but want to be able to run Gnome on it before they'll commit. (And most of them don't want to compile themselves). By having a PBI available of Gnome, we can now offer BSD desktops to a different segment of the community which are Gnome enthusiasts.
One thing I mentioned to Joe is possibly with the next version of PC-BSD later this summer, we could offer the Gnome PBI on our ISO / CDs, that way during the install a user could choose "Gnome" to have it available right at first boot. This may help further satisfy a need in the community, where a user could have a Gnome desktop setup in just a few minutes.
Kris more mentioned to me once that, one of the reasons why portupgrade -ar would not work well on PC-BSD is because, hal was patched. I am not sure of the details. but could we pull this patch back into FreeBSD , so that portupgrade -ar would not mess up PC-BSD?
PC-BSD uses the ports collection at this point. The patch to which he referred was pulled into the official hal port.
Correct, once that patch was pulled into HAL then PC-BSD became just regular ports again, nothing stopping you from modifying to your hearts content.
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Kris Moore PC-BSD Software http://www.pcbsd.com