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, Message: 8
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr 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
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au
wrote:
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
Removing X from the distributions is a right step IMO, these are just
3rd
Ian Smith wrote:
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
However, I do not see any distributions listed that are prefixed with
X-. The choices are All, Reset, Developer, Kern-Developer,
Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au
wrote:
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote:
Removing X from the distributions is a right step IMO,
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
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
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Reed Loefgren rloefg...@forethought.netwrote:
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
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Reed Loefgren
rloefg...@forethought.netwrote:
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
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 son...@otenet.gr wrote:
However, I do not see any distributions listed that are prefixed with
X-. The choices are All, Reset,
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au
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
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:57:44 -0500, Mike L jackoro...@gmail.com 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
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 X should
2009/12/5 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr:
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 been removed.
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