Although I personally feel the best way to begin learning FreeBSD (or really
any *nix) is to avoid GUI's altogether (at least at first), you may want to
give a look into PC-BSD: http://www.pcbsd.org. This comes with KDE
preinstalled and will give you a useable desktop system right off the bat,
and
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote
Enigma thusly...
>
Please wrap your lines around 70 characters or so, instead of
writing one-line paragraphs.
> My question is, how can I install this GUI, or will it be easier
> to install an alternative with less graphics and tag along
> programs? I'm esse
So far I've had success running fluxbox on my old dell laptop with a
600mhz CPU and 128mb of RAM.
pkg_add -r fluxbox
It has a nice menu generator that will pick up most installed programs
and make them available to you through its menus.
I usualy have enough memory left to run konsole with a few
Enigma wrote:
> My problem is this: I am installing onto a small partition (roughly
> 2.5 gig) with the add_pkg -r gnome2 command to download the packets. By
> about what seems 3/4 the way through, my hdd is full and theres no way
> this option is open to me.
You have to know that the gnome2 packa
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Enigma wrote:
I am having problems installing Gnome GUI, I have Xorg working,
and I have read many install instructions to get the Gnome GUI
up and running. My problem is this: I am installing onto a
small partition (roughly 2.5 gig) with the add_pkg -r gnome2
command to
