> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100
> From: smi...@nimnet.asn.au
> To: son...@otenet.gr
> CC: nick.chor...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions
>
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, M
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:57:44 -0500, Mike L wrote:
> all I gotta say is I just spent 3 days compiling gnome2 for fbsd..
> It shouldn't take that long or be that hard/complicated.
I recognized increased compiling times since FreeBSD 7. I
was told that this is due to much more optimization in
the co
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith
wrote:
But the naive or new installer knows of no such thing, and
could beat around in the huge lists of X software for ages, wondering
what's required and what's not to get a desktop going.
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Ian Smith wrote:
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> >
> > However, I do not see any distributions listed that are prefixed with
> > "X-". The choices are "All", "Reset", "Developer",
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Reed Loefgren
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>> Exactly. Most desktop users want a working system in the minimum of time
>>> (Can't blame them for that).
>>> Even with packages, we cannot beat an image-based distro, esp. since it
>>> will a
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Reed Loefgren wrote:
>
>
>> Exactly. Most desktop users want a working system in the minimum of time
>> (Can't blame them for that).
>> Even with packages, we cannot beat an image-based distro, esp. since it
>> will also provide all essential default settings.
>>
>
all I gotta say is I just spent 3 days compiling gnome2 for fbsd..
It shouldn't take that long or be that hard/complicated.
Most of it was stupid crap that I would of thought should of been taken care
of by now.
Applications complaining about which version of python is installed,
complaining about
Exactly. Most desktop users want a working system in the minimum of time
(Can't blame them for that).
Even with packages, we cannot beat an image-based distro, esp. since it
will also provide all essential default settings.
If I might butt in: If the user-to-be wants a working system in 5
Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith
> wrote:
>
>> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
>> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>> > Removing X from the distributions is a right step IMO, these are just
>> > 3rd p
Ian Smith wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
> > >
> > > However, I do not see any distributions listed that are prefixed with
> > > "X-". The choices are "All", "Reset", "Developer", "Kern-Develope
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith
wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> > Removing X from the distributions is a right step IMO, these are just
> > 3rd party packages and it seems conf
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Nicky Chorley wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I downloaded the DVD ISO for FreeBSD 8.0 (i386) and verified the MD5
> > checksum before burning. With regards to choosing distributions
2009/12/5 Manolis Kiagias :
>> However, I do not see any distributions listed that are prefixed with
>> "X-". The choices are "All", "Reset", "Developer", "Kern-Developer",
>> "User", "Minimal" and "Custom". Even the "Custom" option has nothing
>> related to Xorg.
>>
>
> That's correct, these have
Nicky Chorley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded the DVD ISO for FreeBSD 8.0 (i386) and verified the MD5
> checksum before burning. With regards to choosing distributions for
> installation, the handbook says
>
> "If a graphical user interface is desired then a distribution set that
> is preceded by an
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