FreeBSD Finishes Switching Over To GNOME 3.x

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 11 January 2015 at 05:56 AM EST. 7 Comments
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FreeBSD GNOME developers have had various GNOME 3.x components in the FreeBSD Ports repository for months, and with GNOME 2.x now being decommissioned by this BSD operating system, the GNOME3 X11 desktop has replaced GNOME2 on the DVD install media script.

With this change made on Thursday, "Switch to x11/gnome3 now that x11/gnome2 no longer exists in the ports tree." This change is to the pkg-stage.sh script of FreeBSD for including the x11/gnome3 packages on the FreeBSD DVD when generating new ISOs. KDE 4.x remains present as part of the DVD packages. Since November, the GNOME 2 desktop has been removed from FreeBSD Ports.

The GNOME3 support in FreeBSD is currently at GNOME 3.14.2 via the x11/gnome3 ports package. More information on the state of GNOME for FreeBSD can be found via the project's Wiki. While not part of the install media, MATE is available on FreeBSD 10.x for those wishing to continue having a GNOME2-like desktop.
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