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GNOME 2.5.0 Available For FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the little-gnomes-everywhere dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke announces that GNOME 2.5.0 desktop, the "Obviously you're not a golfer" release, is now available for FreeBSD. You can check out this release from the MarcusCom CVS repository. Be sure to get the latest copy of the "marcusmerge" script while you're there to help with the upgrade. Thanks to FreeBSD GNOME users, there is also a man page to go with this script. NOTE: this is a developers release, and bugs will exist. If you're not into bug-hunting, you should probably steer clear until 2.6.0 is released."

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  1. Re:Are you guys coming or what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I wonder if they have any plans to bring Ximian Desktop

    Given the past POV of Miguel de Icaza was to code in such a way to avoid FreeBSD compatiblity in addition to his past rabid pro-GPL stance, only the removal of his influance and placement of people who show that Open Source is not JUST GNU/Linux.

  2. Re:Are you guys coming or what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    FreeBSD is better than GNU/Linux. Just on the licence alone. Having a settlement with USL means no SCO lawsuit.

  3. Re:Are you guys coming or what? by naelurec · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I like FreeBSD as well. Perhaps it was simply due to the fact I moved to it from Red Hat and fell in love with the ports/packages system.

    As far as the "BSD is dying" crap .. yah, it is really annoying. I use other sources for BSD news that are a bit more umm.. grown-up.

    Needless to say, it seems like FreeBSD if anything is growing, not dying. With the very logical and well laid out file system, ports system, ipfw firewall and relatively easy upgrade process (make buildworld, make installworld, portupgrade) there is a lot to like about FreeBSD. Oh did I mention the kernel level security levels, jails and other tightly integrated security related tools? And to top it off, all of it is truly free -- no GPL limiting your distribution. What is there not to like again? :)

  4. Re:Are you guys coming or what? by pyros · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Threading - Why would I watch a DVD on a dev machine or server? You said Linux was a bad server because it can't do multiple compiles. I said I have no trouble doing concurrent builds, so you tell me to watch a DVD and compile software. Now you're mixing desktop and server usage to say FreeBSD is a better server. I don't deny the latency issues you bring up, but I do take issue with the examples you use to illustrate your point.

    Hardware support - You said, and I quote, "BSD isnt meant for desktop, its meant for doing work, I dont need my nVidia card to be supported to do email and crap." I gave an example of where some people need 3d hardware support for "doing work." You respond with FreeBSD is meant to be a work horse, not a graphics workstation. I'm sure you didn't mean to minimize egineers in the oil industry, but you kinda did. Is compiling software magically more computationally difficult than running geological simulations and plotting fault lines and stuff like that? People doing real work need 3d hardware support and FreeBSD doesn't offer it. The developers have different goals, and the users have different needs.

    Security - different design goals, different needs, yadda yadda.

    License - You totally missed my point. The GPL allows me different freedoms as a publisher than the BSD license. The BSD license offers me more freedoms as a consumer than the GPL. But who cares? That's why we have more than one OSS license to choose from.

    In case I haven't made it clear yet, my impression of your statements is that you don't accept the fact that some people need things FreeBSD doesn't offer, just like some people need things that Linux doesn't offer. I'm not saying that Linux is better, I'm just trying to say that FreeBSD isn't better either.