i install, i login, then nothing

sseipel133 said:
richarpl: Your judgment of me is wrong. If I didn't want to learn BSD, why would I have come to this forum? I would have just abandoned freebsd and used linux or desktopbsd. I have found that pcbsd doesn't have much hardware support, desktopbsd is better in that regard.
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Actually DesktopBSD and PCBSD are based on FreeBSD 7.2, so the hardware support should be the same.
However, DesktopBSD is a dead project, the latest release is also the very last release, so you're more or less on a dead end street. OTOH you can upgrade the underlying FreeBSD as if it was a just a plain vanilla FreeBSD.
At the moment there's an alpha version of PCBSD 8 which you could try. There should be a PCBSD 8 release version just after FreeBSD 8.0 is released.
But PCBSD hides a lot of internal stuff from you, so if you really want to learn FreeBSD, how its components work together and how to configure them, take your time to read the handbook, or "Absolute FreeBSD" (ISBN 1593271514).
 
Do you have any more information on that?
On desktopbsd.net it states:
This is the last and final release of the DesktopBSD project. I find myself having less and less time to spare lately and no longer desire to keep developing and maintaining this project. However, because DesktopBSD is based entirely on FreeBSD, further support for the operating system and availability of up-to-date software for DesktopBSD 1.7 is ensured.



Thanks to everyone who helped prepare this release!
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Makes me sad. I guess he gave up eh. I remember how intimidating UNIX was when I first started. I wanted it so bad but didnt have the knowledge yet. redhat and mandrake. Getting x going was my main problem too. That big black X for the mouse cursor on a 640x480 non flat screen CRT. Hard drive making grinding noises. Ugly. Course; my computer was a cross between a commodore 64 and a grapefruit. I didnt give up. started with linux and I was so excited. Then I tried FreeBSD when I got tired of linux and mostly realized what it really was. I didnt want a clone I wanted as close as I could get to the real thing. I got the excitement all over again times 10 with FreeBSD. Truth is though most people should not try FreeBSD as their first *NIX experience. Hopefully this guy didn't give up and he will be back here in a year or so. If you are still around let us know how your doing id be glad to help. Not gonna lie though when I seen: "I install, I login, Then nothing!" I clicked cause i was like wait he doesnt mean. Oh damn.. lol.
 
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