FreeBSD is an excellent operating system, be it on a Desktop (PC-BSD) or Server. Its stability and flexibility was never an issue, nor even software availability (21135 ports currently available to deploy).
Most of the time, ports will install the necessary dependencies to fulfill its requirement. But certain ports installs the X11 (X window system) libraries. [...]
While adding GUI Desktop environment into my development box, an error encountered when compiling KDE4, the stable and nice looking Desktop environment. Compiling KDE4 can take quite some time as it depends on few hundred other ports. Alternatively, you can install KDE4 from the packages by using the command :
pkg_add -r kde4
But installing programs using [...]
Halfway through installing KDE4 or any ports that is related to Xine, ended fail with the below error message :
===> Found saved configuration for libxine-1.1.16.3_1
=> xine-lib-1.1.16.3.tar.bz2 doesn’t seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xine/.
xine-lib-1.1.16.3.tar.bz2 [...]
UPDATE : After testing PC-BSD for a while (more then 6 months), PC-BSD indeed is a FreeBSD variant that is superior in Desktop environment. Its user friendly installation and configuration have make FreeBSD so much more suitable running as an Desktop. Unless you’re interested in figuring out how to tweak and turn FreeBSD to work [...]
After installing a new display Nvidia card on Ubuntu linux, it did not detect the correct resolution available on the monitor. Rather, it uses the wrongly (normally lower resolution) detected resolution, which resulted poor display. After checking out /var/log/Xorg.0.log, it reported correct max resolution detected both on the Nvidia display card & monitor. Below [...]
