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Maybe it's just me, but over the years I've had just one system with sleep/resume working properly (21" iMac from late 2009 in case you are wondering). I'm thinking about building a new system just for FreeBSD and I'm looking for a motherboard playing nicely with FreeBSD when it comes to...

Dear all, I'm well aware that the FreeBSD Forums is probably not the best audience for the following announcement, as you're probably using FreeBSD on a daily basis and have little use for a desktop-oriented FreeBSD 9.0 distributed as a virtual machine. Still, you might be interested in helping...

That's *some* New Year's Proposition... well done! :e RT.

It's not really a project as such, but rather an expriment that proved moderately successful with the previous (and only) release in early 2009. Again from the home page: VirtualBSD is clearly aimed at people with VMware Player (or better) who: 1) Have never tried FreeBSD so far; 2) Wanted...

You're spot on. And I stand corrected and apologize. Since we went through this before (early 2009 with FreeBSD 7.1, in fact) I assumed VirtualBSD was more or less a know entity -- at least around here -- and yes, I was wrong. Here's the part I omitted, straight from the top of our home page...

You can get the SDK for free. As a matter of fact it's even available in the installation disk -- even though it's not installed by default. Look in the "Optional Installs" folder and just install the Xcode Tools if you don't feel like digging in "Packages". Hope this helps, Reece

We wanted to have a 'wannabe mac' desktop, so the choice was more or less made for us. Whether this is a good/neutral/bad choice is a different issue altogether but, in my opinion, when it comes to personal preferences there's no right or wrong -- especially since we're discussing user...

Yes, that's the basic idea -- in the event it wasn't obvious enough. You know, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" and all that... :e RT.

First off, apologies for the intrusion but we have news good and bad. And yes, I know I'm preaching to the choir here... ;-) Good news first: it's been a long time coming but VirtualBSD 8.1 is out! Bad news: if you didn't like it back then, you're probably not going to like it now. Don't get...

I don't know if you did any modifications yet but, in case you haven't, take a look at /etc/X11: there should be a file called ReadmeVirtualBox.txt and a plain xorg.conf called xorg.conf.BeforeVMwareToolsInstall. But these are the complete step by step instructions (as root, password root4u)...

1) Logging in as virtualbsd, root, or? Virtualbsd gets a customized Xfce desktop, while root gets twm for both technical and philosophical reasons -- unless you change that. 2) Mail, on the other hand, seems to be working fine. Just sent a test message and it went through without problems...

We don't know yet, but in my opinion that would flatly contradict the "virtual" in VirtualBSD -- not to mention it would mean facing the usual problems like detecting/supporting hardware, PLUS being in in direct competition with PC-BSD and DesktopBSD. Still, if you consider that this started...

And our site even survided the Slashdot Effect! :e Thanks everyone for your support and the (mostly) kind words. And last but not least, a big Thank You to the FreeBSD Team and all the people writing the software we've come to know and love! Reece

Yes, it's Xfce 4. To get a desktop like that you drop the bottom panel, add "wbar" from the ports and set it up to start as soon as the desktop has been loaded. Unless you want to edit its configuration file manually you will also need "wbarconf" which, for some reason, it's not in the ports...

Thanks a lot, but since the usual open trackers have been acting up a bit lately, we have decided to run our own. Please, visit the download page at your earliest convenience and use the up to date torrent for seeding. Cheers, Reece

Since there seems to be at least a bit of interest around it, VirtualBSD has its own official web site now: http://www.virtualbsd.info. Reece

Here's what my box looks like with Xfce 4, wbar and a custom OS X like theme: http://drop.io/gfunl8g/asset/desktop-jpg And yes, you could either do it yourself or get it "for free" with VirtualBSD for VMware (look into the Off-Topic forum for the details)! :e K.

Okay, here's what my desktop looks like thanks to XFCE 4, wbar and a custom OSX-like theme (also note the magnifying effect at the bottom): http://drop.io/rh9edhi/asset/desktop-jpg BTW, you too could get such setup via VirtualBSD! ;-) (See http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1756...

Don't know about sysinstall/ftp, but maybe you could try: # pkg_add -r package_name That would also take care of depencies, dowloading and installing them for you. However, be aware that not all the packages seem to be available in binary form. Good luck! K.

Okay, I'm probably preaching to the converted here, but I wanted to let you know that I created a VMware appliance with a desktop oriented FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE. The main difference to, say, PC-BSD or DesktopBSD is that this one is based on XFCE 4 and, thanks to wbar, it looks a bit like Mac OS...