Hello,
as written in title of this thread I want to try out the package desktop-installer for setting up FreeBSD as desktop-system.
I've read some threads about this, also was involved in a discussion about it. Some people think, FreeBSD as a universal OS also is good for using on desktop, some people disagree with that, some people of "desktop-party" postulate to make some things a little bit more easy, some others from "desktop-party" and "non-desktop-party" disagree with this and so on. A bundle of different opinions.
I'm a Linux user since 1998, have a lot of experience with it and use it on desktop systems, on Notebooks and on NAS. I'm one of the people of "desktop-party" and I'm one of people who think, that some things could be a little bit more easy to set up for desktop using. I'm able to set up FreeBSD for my needs as desktop user, meanwhile can do a lot of things with it as with Linux. But if there is a package which makes some things a little bit more comfortable, I will not hesitate to use it.
One important point: I'm not a refugee from Linux, my intention trying FreeBSD is to learn about a further free Unix-based operating system, not to replace Linux with it.
Apart from I've learned yesterday, that FreeBSD has a package called sysutils/desktop-installer, I'm a little bit curious how it will works.
I want to delete my current FreeBSD installation with xorg, nvidia, libreoffice, kde4 ... , then I want to set up a basic FreeBSD and then want to try out package desktop-installer.
My question: Is there any interest for a detailed How-To? Then I'll make a documentation of this installation with all steps and I'll hope that this How-To maybe can help other people who want to try out FreeBSD for desktop. If I get no feedback here then I'll do installation but without documentation.
Kind regards,
Holger
as written in title of this thread I want to try out the package desktop-installer for setting up FreeBSD as desktop-system.
I've read some threads about this, also was involved in a discussion about it. Some people think, FreeBSD as a universal OS also is good for using on desktop, some people disagree with that, some people of "desktop-party" postulate to make some things a little bit more easy, some others from "desktop-party" and "non-desktop-party" disagree with this and so on. A bundle of different opinions.
I'm a Linux user since 1998, have a lot of experience with it and use it on desktop systems, on Notebooks and on NAS. I'm one of the people of "desktop-party" and I'm one of people who think, that some things could be a little bit more easy to set up for desktop using. I'm able to set up FreeBSD for my needs as desktop user, meanwhile can do a lot of things with it as with Linux. But if there is a package which makes some things a little bit more comfortable, I will not hesitate to use it.
One important point: I'm not a refugee from Linux, my intention trying FreeBSD is to learn about a further free Unix-based operating system, not to replace Linux with it.
Apart from I've learned yesterday, that FreeBSD has a package called sysutils/desktop-installer, I'm a little bit curious how it will works.
I want to delete my current FreeBSD installation with xorg, nvidia, libreoffice, kde4 ... , then I want to set up a basic FreeBSD and then want to try out package desktop-installer.
My question: Is there any interest for a detailed How-To? Then I'll make a documentation of this installation with all steps and I'll hope that this How-To maybe can help other people who want to try out FreeBSD for desktop. If I get no feedback here then I'll do installation but without documentation.
Kind regards,
Holger