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October 6th, 2012, 09:37
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Cinnamon
Hi all,
I don't know how many of you have tried Gnome3 yet, but my first encounter with it more than a year or so ago was such that I immediately reinstalled the previous version of Fedora I was using at the time, which still offered Gnome2. I continued to use that for more than a year, well after it had stopped being supported, simply because I didn't want to forsake Gnome2 again for its successor, which I found virtually unusable (I believe Gnome3 has since improved). I am now using Cinnamon, which is being developed by the team at Linux Mint, and it seems to me to be the best alternative to
If it gets ported to FreeBSD, I will seriously consider installing FreeBSD on my desktop system. Have any of you had a chance to try Cinnamon? Obligatory Wikipedia link: Cinnamon 
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October 6th, 2012, 12:53
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Cinnamon is to mush Linux centric. I have seen the code. Now this days People who work on DE tend to Forgot the other open source OS. Gnome 3 is one of the best example on that. I have no idea why all open source project don't try to work together. I stick on BSD even if i might not see gnome 3 on FreeBSD.
Take note than the third party software is maintain mostly by some user. I have learn true those years if I wont something on FreeBSD. I need to port it. True Gnu/Linux user/developers think like Gnu/Linux user/developers and True FreeBSD user/developers think like FreeBSD user/developers. When I start using FreeBSD I was a simple Windows Gnu/Linux user. The switch was hard. My English was very poor. It take time to me to learn all in the same time. It is 4 year ago now I can port app to FreeBSD. I have my own project started call GhostBSD. A FreeBSD Gnome and Lxde desktop live CD and DVD. If I use Gnu/Linux now? only when I fix the problem than my wife cause on her system by exploring further the system. To be a good FreeBSD user you need to have a developer mentality and mess with the system. But that is only my opinion other FreeBSD users may not agree on this. FreeBSD is a Server OS. It main goals is to be The Best server OS and FreeBSD is The Best Server OS. But FreeBSD is not a desktop OS. PC-BSD, GhostBSD And other project try make this gap. In my book for now PC-BSD is very good on it. GhostBSD lake of feature due to the lake of time. But still usable. Also one OS that gain my respect is Mac OS X. Mac OS X is build on top of FreeBSD and other BSD code project. FreeBSD is not intend to be Desktop OS. But lot user of FreeBSD hack their way and make it work like desktop OS.
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October 6th, 2012, 15:15
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I use it in the home environment for listening to music, watching videos on the desktop and youtube, viewing PDF's and light office applications, playing games, graphic manipulation, etc. to the extent that it serves as my only OS.
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October 6th, 2012, 20:34
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Cinnamon reminded me more of KDE4 than Gnome2. I'd just use KDE if I liked it.
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October 6th, 2012, 20:36
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October 7th, 2012, 20:57
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Thanks ondra_knezour. That was from April. Cinnamon development seems to moving quickly. Under Linux it is now reasonably stable; perhaps under due time the same will be the case for FreeBSD.
If anyone hears anything more about Cinnamon under FreeBSD, please post below.
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October 8th, 2012, 17:33
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There is a shar for Cinnamon from from one of the members of the FreeBSD gnome porting team. It might be worth checking out. I suspect that a fully functional gnome 3 will be required to utilize this. I haven't looked into it much yet.
http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/shar/
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April 11th, 2013, 04:00
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April 11th, 2013, 15:12
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