freebsd desktop | mozilla

[Lane]

On Friday 24 November 2006 17:41, probsd org wrote:
> I'm a long time proponent of FreeBSD as a server. For a long time I've
> really wanted a FreeBSD system as a desktop. So, I decided to install the
> FreeBSD 6.2 and compile xorg, gnome, mozilla, etc... to give it a whirl.
>
>   For anyone reading this, who wants the same thing.
>
>   DO NOT DO IT.  Nothing works. java is borked, mozilla and firefox are
> borked, gnome is ify.... ugh.
>
>   Just dont do it.  As a server, I highly recommend it... but it isn't
> ready for the desktop.
>
>
Just out of curiosity, what version of FreeBSD started you as a proponent?  
Is "long-time" more than, say, six months?  Long enough to know how to 
compile a kernel?  Long enough to have used portupgrade?

I've been using FreeBSD productively for various combinations of server and 
desktop solutions since 3.4-RELEASE.  I'm glad to say that I cannot claim to 
never having problems with FreeBSD.  If that were true then I think I would 
never have learned anything.  Thankfully the learning curve is steep, and 
never seems to quite level out.

While I'll admit that the desktop features supported by FreeBSD are sometimes 
lacking, I recognize that FreeBSD does not itself provide a desktop 
interface.  Thus for desktop issues I turn to X.org, KDE.org, or whatever 
project handles the feature I'm interested in.

If you are actually interested in using FreeBSD on your desktop then maybe you 
don't know how to start.

Try this:  send a question to freebsd-questions at freebsd.org.  

If this is what you feel you've done with the subject line "freebsd desktop | 
mozilla" then ... maybe you could rephrase the question.  Something 
like "when I type 'mozilla' I get the error message 'BORKED!'" would be a 
little more helpful.

lane