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FreeBSD and GNOME

Submitted by Uraeus on Fri, 2006-05-12 17:08. FreeBSD
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news.com has a story about FreeBSD and their effort to improve their position as a desktop operating system by improving their interoperability and support for GNOME. The effort is lead by Joe Clarke who have done a wonderful job for a long time now making sure GNOME and related technologies worked nicely under FreeBSD. They are now upping the ante with working on HAL support and more for FreeBSD. Maybe its time to take a look at installing FreeBSD again?

pleasant surprise

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Tue, 2006-05-16 05:01.

I switched to FreeBSD from Gentoo Linux a pair of weeks ago.

As a gnome user I am pleased to say that GNOME has less issues on FreeBSD than on Gentoo Linux. It's more updated, its apps startup quicker (even comparing with prelinked Gentoo Linux), no quirks (as nautilus cdburner not burning), amd doesn't make me feel ophan of hal+cold/hotplug+udev, etc etc

I knew nothing of FreeBSD except its history, I installed it without troubles, then run "make -C /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 install", everything worked fine and know I'm here, using it, having wasted no time.

THANK YOU FreeBSD team, and FreeBSD/GNOME above all.

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