On Wed, 2 May 2001, Gavan Fantom wrote:

> Recently I've been playing a little with demonstrating how to set up a
> NetBSD/i386 1.5 machine as a desktop machine for a single user or a small
> number of users. Nothing special, just plain NetBSD + pkgsrc + X. With
> systems such as FreeBSD, the installer takes the user a bit further
> through this kind of setup (including setting up X and installing a window
> manager). Ours does not.
>
> So I'm writing here what I tend to do next, really to compare notes...
> I'm hoping some people might find this useful or that somebody will say
> "why are you doing that when you could do this?"
>
	If you have a spare machine you should try installing current
	and playing with sushi - its designed to give a common interface
	to most admin tasks.

> [much admin tasks]

> Find an old pkg that I hacked about with a while ago that manages to
> intsall licq 0.61 and wish that it was in pkgsrc
>
	Considered submitting it? :)

> Install Linux compatibility stuff and Netscape
>
> Take a text editor to the KDE configuration files to sort out the icon
> positioning [the default isn't to my taste, and the dialog box to change
> it is broken under NetBSD]
>
	Submit a PR!

> Install random other applications as and when needed.

	Seems pretty sane.

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --