There are far more than 2 desktop versons of FreeBSD but people in U.S. and Western Europe chose to ignore others.vermaden said:Unfortunnely the all the two desktop versions of FreeBSD are KDE/QT based, but you can add GNOME PBI @ PCBSD or just do pkg_add -r gnome2 to get it.
calande said:That would be an excellent initiative to have an Ubuntu with a FreeBSD kernel and FreeBSD-native apps. I now prefer Gnome to KDE too!
rhyous said:Debian will be making it a reality eventually.
http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
I think this might have some great benefits. I see it as another set of workers finding bugs, enhancing FreeBSD. I may or may not use it, but I think it is cool that some want to do this.
Well, back in the dim and distant 20th century, when I first dishcovah'd FreeBSD, Debian was working on a FreeBSD kernel + Debian linux userland distro of their own. Good to see it's still almost alpha quality over a decade later.
I used that how-to:rhyous said:Yeah...I just ran across it a while ago and thought I would check it out. I guess the project started about a decade ago and then was killed but has recently started back up.
I downloaded the ISO and tried to install it on a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation 6.5 but it didn't work. So I would have to say it isn't alpha yet either.
Also, I guess i made the assumption that because Ubuntu prefers GNOME that GNU/kFreeBSD would too, but I guess that isn't necessarily true.