Installing a Desktop Environment on FreeBSD
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- This quick video guide walks through setting up the XFCE desktop environment on a fresh FreeBSD installation.The guide covers installing packages, configuring and editing multiple configuration files with the vi editor, and booting directly into the desktop environment. For more information on the process, refer to the full guide:
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One of the biggest problems with Freebsd adoption is tutorials and resources that are consistent thorough and update. The other problems I have ran into thru the years is the Blatant Arrogance of those so called experts participating in the forums. Their God like attitudes really deter many newbee comers to learn more about Freebsd and this only limits their user base adoption. There should be more videos like this convering basic configurations that are basic on other OS but a challenge on Freebsd.
The massive user guide that FreeBSD offers is really about as friendly as it can get. In tech spaces there will always be elitists and people need to learn to ignore them.
That and Windows is the most supported.
Mac gets a pat on the shoulder.
Linux is constantly fighting and being lifted up by a humungous community and other companies especially Valve.
While any BSD is non existent outside of commercial console adoption by multimillion companies.
Even Windows and Mac at their core run structures and code either based on or are BSD.
One major problem and threat with BSD it that it's not forced to the same rules as GNU forces Linux. It can be modified and sold.
So anybody who derives BSD or makes a significant enough change to the kernel or system. Can sell it.
Bigger companies or groups might be free for a while. But eventually- Especially with the recent Unity controversy. It's very likely one would eventually turn to monetizing either current or future versions of their operating system.
This would make BSD adoption very risky and unsafe and a hard sell to devote development and learning into when your entire environment might be pulled from right under you behind a payment.
Perhaps they don't want newcomers. It's because of all the people that adopted linux that we now have an absolute monstrosity of an OS.
FreeBSD is for folks who want to boot their OS and admire 15 processes running. No systemd, no dbus, no nonsense, just dead simple init, rc.conf and an OS that runs applications, not itself.
Thank you guys. You saved me. Thanks.
1:25 why do you use the || symbol (OR)? I thought you would use the && symbol (AND) to execute the 2nd part after the 1st part succeeds.
But now I am thinking: the completion of the
pw groupmod video -m Username
will return a 0 on success? Because if it returns a 0, then this is logical False, so then I get it, you want the || to force the 2nd part of the command to execute.
Returning a 0 is logical True, while returning non-zero is logical False. Bash is weird. If you run "echo a || echo b" you will see only a is displayed (because first command succeeds, hence the second isn't executed). The correct operator here is && (which will only run the second command if the first one succeeds) or simply ; (which will run both no matter what).
Can someone help me? What is the symbol before /.xinitrc at 2:52? If I type " it doesn't work.
Edit: never mind, I found it, it was ~
Hi I saw you editing the conf files in the video. It’s one thing to say “type this” but it’s a whole other thing to know what I’m actually typing or what all that stuff actually means. As someone who wants to learn more I wonder where I would go to read about this stuff, probably something to do with the kernel but yeah where would I go to learn this stuff? Where would you recommend I start to get a better understanding of what’s in these conf files and what they point to. I will continue to read. Thanks ^^
the freebsd Wiki
@@DoubtingThomas333 will give that a shot. Thank you
After the startx command there is no keyboard or mousepad, i can't type or move the mouse at all on my laptop
Will this work on 32 bit system
Free BSD he ain't do nothing wrong
Is it normal if the /boot/loader.conf is empty?
depends. i know if your using a VM on amd64 it would be empty, everything should still work (i personally tested myself)
Hi, if you could create videos on the best way to install Linux applications. As well as on how to configure sound such that the default is internal speakers and when headphone jack is inserted it automatically switches to headphones and if there is a HDMI port when it is plugged sound automatically switches HDMI even if headphones jack is plugged in. Thanks & Best Regards
Schroter Michael
Agree on this... I'm in a jam where the rear output of the mobo (green) is technically recognized, but there is no output. Instead, it outputs to front headphone (front output). The device is officially seen by the system as 5.1/2.0, a combined device that is indeed selected as the default device, but for some reason, sound goes to front 2.0 port. I tried reassigning the nids, it should have been nid23, but still no sound comes out. I got the rear audio to come out of all ports like mic, input, sub center, etc.. it was interesting to see it configurable like that, but it refuses to come out of rear green port no matter what I do..
"Fatal server error, cannot run in framebuffer mode". Yeah, that's enough BSD for the rest of the year for me.
Make Freebsd easy to use...at least the option to be easy to use. Have official spins using the most popular DE's.
Is freebsd immutable? All these things would help the uptake of BSD for the normal population. Let's go!
I'll keep poking around with FreeBSD until I'm able to get cinnamon on it.
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