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What is GNOME?
GNOME is a complete desktop experience. Altogether, the GNOME desktop environment and the associated comprehensive suite of applications provide an easy to use, attractive, powerful, and homogenized environment. The FreeBSD GNOME Project is a team of devoted committers and users that manage the integration of GNOME and FreeBSD. The major components of GNOME are:
For more information about GNOME, check out the GNOME Project's "What is GNOME?" page. Upgrading to GNOME 2.8?If you are upgrading from GNOME 2.6 to GNOME 2.8, read the Upgrade FAQ for upgrade instructions, and be sure to use the upgrade script! State of the portGNOME for FreeBSD is currently supported on 4.10, 4.11, 5.3, 4-STABLE, 5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT. Most of GNOME has been ported to FreeBSD, but there is still plenty left to be done! Simple solutions to build problems - quickly!GNOME is simple and easy to build using the FreeBSD ports system, but there are caveats of which not everyone is aware. If GNOME -- or anything that uses GNOME libraries -- is not building the way it should, simply give the gnomelogalyzer.sh tool a log of the failed build, and let the gnomelogalyzer figure out what's wrong and how to fix it. |
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