Announcing: FreeBSD GNOME-based custom iso released

manolis@

Developer
Continuing the effort in producing custom FreeBSD builds, I am pleased to announce a GNOME-based one. This includes a complete GNOME 2.26.2 desktop and also the gnome-power-tools and gnome-fifth-toe package collections.

Important: There appears to be a problem with the package INDEX on the DVD that I have not been able to solve: Two packages are not selected as dependencies, although they are actually needed:

  1. djbfft - Required for gnumeric
  2. libdvdcss - Required for gnome multimedia packages (and yes I realize this package is probably in the 'grey area')

Please select these packages manually from the "All" menu in
Sysinstall's package selection screen. Failing to do so may cause
installation of other packages to fail. Note this is a problem only if you install packages using Sysinstall. It is possible to install packages using pkg_add while in the /cdrom/packages/All directory without any problem.

I did attempt to correct these but could not find a solution that
would not cause other packages to fail (or even sysinstall to segfault). I am open to suggestions to anyone that can have a look.

Other than XFCE being replaced by GNOME, the two DVDs are otherwise identical in packages. The OpenOffice packages already present for XFCE will also work with this build (both builds were run from the same ports tree).

The main download page is:

http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/downloads-page

As always, feedback is welcome.
 
Awesome Manolis, thx. I'm not personally going to use the GNOME release because for some reason or another I have something against GNOME and ESPECIALLY KDE. GNOME is alright, but I'd rather Xfce and Enlightenment (if it was an option). So what's next, do you have any plans or goals you'd like to reach?
 
primatephreak said:
Awesome Manolis, thx. I'm not personally going to use the GNOME release because for some reason or another I have something against GNOME and ESPECIALLY KDE.

I must admit I am not much of a GNOME user myself, at least when it comes to FreeBSD (where I mostly use XFCE). I do use it on some linux machines, but I find it a bit overkill on FreeBSD, esp. when it comes to upgrading. That said, after installing in and configuring it on my test system last night, I thought it was quite nice.

GNOME is alright, but I'd rather Xfce and Enlightenment (if it was an option). So what's next, do you have any plans or goals you'd like to reach?

The next step is definitely a Server CD. This is coming in about 15 days (I am still thinking of the package selection). As far as more desktops are concerned, I would probably create a "small" WM DVD with many of the smaller window managers OR integrate these into the XFCE build. Since they probably share a lot of dependencies, the final iso size won't be much larger.
 
Some information for anyone who would like to try this: The link posted is actually for freebsd, nothing else. It is exactly the same as what you will get if you go to freebsd.org, and you will still have to add packages to get xorg and gnome after installing.
 
Back
Top