A Script Making It Easier Turning A FreeBSD Install Into A Working Desktop

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Script Making It Easier Turning A FreeBSD Install Into A Working Desktop

With TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD) no longer focused on delivering a quality BSD desktop as they once did, while there still are options out there for a desktop-focused BSD like MidnightBSD, for those wanting to use a vanilla FreeBSD installation can now setup a desktop easier using a new script...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-Easy-Desktop-Script

[tildearrow]

Wait. GNOME on FreeBSD?

Also, typo:

while all defaulting to the SSDM display manager.

Also, second typo: can find it via <a hrf=

See below

[tuxd3v]

Those wanting to try out this script to deploy a FreeBSD desktop easier can find it via Adriaan's blog.

The link doesn't work..

[dreich]

Pardon my French but who gives a crap about FreeBSD or any Unix at this stage?

I believe those that don't see the point of using linux over FreeBSD or said Unix. If it works for them who cares what they use?

[PublicNuisance]

GhostBSD is also an option. No scripts needed to get a working desktop with a GUI right out of the gate:

https://ghostbsd.org/

[eidolon]

https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2019/08/12/instant-workstation.html

https://github.com/adriaandegroot/FreeBSDTools/blob/master/bin/instant-workstation

[cen1]

Pardon my French but who gives a crap about FreeBSD or any Unix at this stage? Besides banks running 40 year old Fortran codebases that is. I'm genuinely curious.

I run a server and a freenas. Does everything Linux can do. Plus, competition is always good.

[Wojcian]

I run a server and a freenas. Does everything Linux can do. Plus, competition is always good.

I think he was talking about Desktops..

[cen1]

I think he was talking about Desktops..

Yeah, fair enough. I don't see any compeling reasons to run FreeBSD desktop.

[dnebdal]

I sometimes run FreeBSD desktop machines - basically, it works fine and I'm just used to the OS. It's not quite as polished and integrated as a modern Linux desktop (since some of the DE functionality has not been ported over to use the equivalent BSD interfaces), but it's also more comfortably conservative: No weird surprises from whatever Cool New Thing has migrated in from Redhat (or Canonical) this week.

If you, like me, mostly want a place where you can work in a text editor with a working browser (and sound and networking and an accelerated composited desktop), it's fine, almost boring. I'd suggest Linux on a laptop, though - or OpenBSD, they have apparently put in a surprising amount of work there.