Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:00:02 -0600 tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org opined: > Brian Wood writes: > >harv writes: > >> So am I. Was an Archlinux user for years but cancer known > >> as systemd appeared so needed to look elsewhere. ~2016 tried > >> TrueOS and fell in love with zfs filesystem. Unfortunately, > >> TrueOS 1803- the preconfigured version hasn't updated since > >> march. RC-1 and RC-2 of Project Trident didn't work for me so > >> installed FreeBSD 11.2 and lumina DE- developed > >> by Trueos devs- and am a happy camper :-) > > > > > > I tried the latest version of GhostBSD now and am not sure > > if I'm going to stick with it. I had a few small problems. One > > was not being able to log out and log back in as a different user. > > > > What you mention about using FreeBSD and lumina sounds > > interesting. Did you build lumina from ports? I've had mixed > > results with building things from ports the few times I've done > > that. > > > > I did this now without much difficulty. It took me a while to > figure out that I had to create a .xinitrc file. I also had to relearn > the 'mount' command as there wasn't any automounting. > For things you want mounted at boot time, add them to /etc/fstab. For auto-mounting things like usb sticks there is the automount package. I prefer to manually mount such things so don't use it and thus cannot advise. > One thing I haven't figured out is how to change the size of > windows. I'm stuck with either their initial size or making them > full screen. In lumina, grabbing a window by lower right corner and dragging works for me. >I forgot to check on the firewall stuff when I had > the latest version of GhostBSD installed. I still have that > version on a usb so maybe I could check it without having > to reinstall it. What do you mean by firewall stuff? What exactly are you looking for? -- harv