The DesktopBSD team has released their most important release to date-- DesktopBSD 1.0 is now available via .torrent or as a 'normal' download. The release includes KDE 3.5.1, FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE, a user-friendlier package manager, and many more smaller improvements, which are detailed in the changelog and the release notes.
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Member since:2005-08-02
Sorry, this is not the place to go too much into technical details but think of it again. There are a lot of reasons for Kris Moore (PC-BSD) and Peter Hofer (DesktopBSD) why they have choosen KDE instead of Gnome.
For a user it's not a prob at all: Use Ports, packages or use the Ports-GUI to install Gnome and you are happy again with your Gnome.
For a developer there's nothing wrong with Gnome itself and I would really like to see a similar project using FreeBSD and Gnome. All the code is public and can be used under BSD-license at will, do it! Or find people willing to start a project! Both projects will help you as much as they can, we are BSD.
DesktopBSD-CVS: http://websvn.desktopbsd.net/
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PC-BSD: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pcbsd/#dirlist
Best regards, Daniel
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2006-01-18
is that it and pc-bsd aim to do the same thing mostly the same way, and it wastes the desktopbsd name that could be used for a gnome based bsd desktop