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November 15, 2016

How to Install FreeBSD 11 with KDE Desktop and Review on VMware Tutorial

FreeBSS 11 KDE Desktop
FreeBSD 11 KDE Desktop Installation and Review

This tutorial shows how to install FreeBSD 11 with KDE 4 Desktop and review on VMware Workstation step by step. We'll also install applications such as Nano, GIMP, Firefox and Gedit on FreeBSD 11.  This tutorial also helps for installing FreeBSD 11 on physical computer or server. We'll also install VMware Tools (Open VM Tools) on FreeBSD 11 for better performance and usability (Fit Guest Now, Drag-Drop File and Mouse Integration).

FreeBSD 11 Installation Steps:

  1. Download FreeBSD 11 ISO
  2. Create VM on VMware Workstation/Player
  3. Start Installation
  4. Installing Xorg, KDE 4 Desktop
  5. Installing Firefox, Nano, GIMP and gedit Applications on FreeBSD 11
  6. Installing and Configuring VMware Tools (Open VM Tools)
  7. FreeBSD 11 KDE Desktop Review

Installing FreeBSD 11 with KDE Desktop and Apps on VMware



What is FreeBSD?

FreeBSD is an operating system for a variety of platforms which focuses on features, speed, and stability. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993, and today FreeBSD is the most widely used open-source BSD distribution. FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features today which are still missing in other operating systems, even some of the best commercial ones. FreeBSD can be installed from a variety of media including CD-ROM, DVD, or directly over the network using FTP or NFS.
FreeBSD Website: https://www.freebsd.org/


FreeBSD 11 New Features and Improvements

  1. Overall system and architectural changes
  2. New Hardware Support
  3. Networking improvements
  4. ARM improvements
  5. Virtualization Improvements: bhyve, Xen, Hyper-V and AWS EC2
  6. Wireless Improvements
  7. Storage Subsystem Improvements and Upgraded Version of OpenZFS
  8. Many security updates

What is KDE Desktop?

KDE Community is an international technology team dedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and a platform to easily build new applications upon.  In this regard, the resources provided by KDE make it a central development hub and home for many popular applications and projects like Calligra Suite, Krita, digiKam, and many others.
KDE Website: https://www.kde.org/

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