RE: The FreeBSD Xperience
From: Corsis (corsis_at_epnix.com)
Date: 04/10/04
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To: "'Newbies@BSD'" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:43:37 -0400
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> From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jason Dusek
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 1:50 PM
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> Subject: The FreeBSD Xperience
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> Then I found another, better machine - one of the casualties of our
> transfer from SPARC to i386. It had been one of the test cases for 1386
> Solaris, and Bob just hadn't been able to make it work quite right... I
> talked them into letting me have it. I got X to work, and fooled around
> with Window Maker for awhile until I decided to get GNOME. Then my
> troubles really began. After I had a GNOME configuration that I really
> liked, I just copied all my .gnome* files into /usr/shar/skel/. Then I
> added some new users. This is not a good idea though, because, as I
> later found out, the .gnome* files have your home directory hard coded
> into them for whatever reason. But it worked for awhile. I enabled
> GDM, and then all hell broke loose. I spent several days blowing away
> all my users, and then putting them back again. It turns out that there
> was some evil config left over in, of all places, /var/tmp. Someday I
> would like to write a script that 'exports' my config files properly.
[Micheal Peters] I've had X up and running with KDE a few times. But with
my current install, I'm holding off installing X until I have a chance to
really read how the whole thing interacts with the OS. From what I
understand X is a bear all to itself :)
> I have been reading 'FreeBSD Unleashed' to help me through the install
> on the second machine, and I'm at about the middle of the book. Soon
> I'll setup mail and Apache. Ahaha! I've gone mad with the power (to
> serve)!
[Micheal Peters] I've been hearing a lot about this book. In my library, I
have Absolute BSD, seems to be an ok book. But I've been thinking about
getting the Unleashed one, Different views on the same subject seems to be a
good thing at time :)
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