Well, I figured I would try and install a full, GUI version of FreeBSD on my tertiary computer. It's an oldie but goodie - 800mhz overclocked Celeron, 256mb RAM, but a big hard drive. The idea, as I believe I've mentioned before, is to run a backup server, something that runs a Bacula server to back up all the other machines on my network. And to have a local FreeBSD machine to hack around on, as my FreeBSD server is now off living its own life in NH these days.
I still haven't had much luck with my KVM switch. PC-BSD just doesn't seem to recognize the mouse, and DragonFly BSD seems to rudimentary to play with. It's a long-standing problem with FreeBSD for some reason - it just doesn't see a mouse when it is hooked up via a KVM switch. Looking back through my notes here, I see where I once got FreeSBIE to work by jiggling when X start up, but I can't seem to even get that to work any more :-(
Anyway, here's Yet Another BSD distro, called DesktopBSD. I'll give it a shot...
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