On 16 November 2015 at 21:24, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > This is not true. We have working 3D on FreeBSD with the RPi. The code for > the 3D accelerator on the RPi 2 was just updated:
I sit corrected, and my apologies for the disinformation. Saying that, though, I reluctantly stand by the rest. Let's put it this way: I've been working with, building and maintaining Unix machines professionally since 1988. Systems I've designed, built and maintained have handled reliably handled transactions of over half a billion US dollars a day for years on end. I am not a newbie. I am unable to install FreeBSD on a generic PC and get it to a working graphical desktop with Internet access. I have tried, repeatedly, over the last decade and a half or more. My last attempt was with FreeBSD 9.x and it failed like all those before it. My most recent attempt with a remix was last month, with Midnight BSD, under VirtualBox. It has no GUI; the packages for X.11 are missing from the repo. According to a reply on Google+ this is a known problem with no workaround. Initiates do not encounter this kind of problem, as they have the requisite knowledge and cannot easily step into the mindset of someone who lacks it. FreeBSD is *substantially* harder to get working than Linux. The other BSDs are harder than FreeBSD. As such, except for the determined or the already highly-skilled, I do not recommend them. For curious Raspberry Pi owners, who have probably never seen anything but Windows before, it is not a viable option. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
