Desktop FreeBSD Part 3: Adding Software

An anonymous reader writes " Desktop FreeBSD Part 3: Adding Software called Open For Business, covers the installation of third party applications onto FreeBSD."

Anybody?

[pediddle]

It's been 6 hours since this was posted and there are no comments!

BSD may not be dead, but it's sure as hell that nobody cares on slashdot.

Re:Anybody?

[Brandybuck]

Posted by Hemos on Monday June 14, @04:38AM

Maybe it's because everyone is asleep!

Re:Anybody?

[n0dez]

Or maybe it's because everyone is working silently the same way as FreeBSD servers; doing their jobs, not giving problems.

Re:The lack of comments is proof....

[Charles Dart]

Ahem... I have *five* friends, thank you very much.

Re:The lack of comments is proof....

[devphaeton]

[b] Ahem... I have *five* friends, thank you very much.[/b]

I've got you beat! I have 4 friends *and* a weekend girlfriend! Ha! And, one of those 4 friends i met IRL once! :oP

no subject

[n0dez]

In this article, Ed Hurst talks about installing software from the ports and using joe.
However, he doesn't talk about portinstall, a tool that makes installing software from the ports much easier.

Re:no subject

[bplipschitz]

In this article, Ed Hurst talks about installing software from the ports and using joe.
However, he doesn't talk about portinstall, a tool that makes installing software from the ports much easier.

Port installation couldn't be much easier the way it already *is*. portupgrade makes managing those ports *much* easier across upgrades, though.

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Re:*BSD is dying

[n0dez]

There are only 2 true facts:
1. Your post is a troll.
2. You're an anonymous coward.

Re:The Facts Are In -- No Comments == Proof!

[sirket]

Fact: Many user-level applications will no longer work under *BSD, and no one is working to change this. The GIMP, a Photoshop-like application, has not worked at all under *BSD since version 1.1 (sorry, too much trouble for such a small base, developers have said). OpenOffice, a Microsoft Office clone, has never worked under *BSD and never will. ("Why would we bother?" said developer Steven Andrews, an OpenOffice team lead.)

I had a feeling the program that I use for graphics every day wasn't really the G

Re:The Facts Are In -- No Comments == Proof!

[sigaar]

I use to use the GIMP on Linux and I knew how it was supposed to work. It was supposed to crash every half hour and be slow as hell.

Dunno what linux you were using. On my PC at work (SUSE) OpenOffice has been open with a couple of large spreadsheets (1-3mb with only numbers - no graphics) open, for more than two months. I don't leave Gimp open because I don't use it that much, but it has never (since v0.99) crashed on me. NEVER!

Re:The Facts Are In -- No Comments == Proof!

[Ottoman II]

You took your time! I bet you were running non *BSD OS so you were, compiling / recovering from crash.

If you had chosen *BSD as your desktop OS you would be able post this tripe as the first comment to this article.

Ottoman II
Deamon's Advocate.

No Posts--We can already install software

[Protoslo]

I would speculate that this thread has so few posts not because BSD is dying, but because any BSD user dedicated enough to browse slashdot and find this "article" hidden in the BSD section has probably already figured out how to install software (even linux binaries, if you're in to that sort of thing ;p).

Whereas adherents of certain [cough] linux distribtions have started flame threads longer than this one over the comparative merits of their various package systems, the BSD users have little to say on th