How to Install FreeBSD 11 LXDE Desktop and Apps on VMware Tutorial

FreeBSD 11 LXDE Desktop Installation and Review

This tutorial shows how to install FreeBSD 11 with LXDE Desktop and FreeeBSD 11 review on VMware Workstation step by step. We'll install applications such as Nano, GIMP, Firefox, VLC media player on FreeBSD 11. 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). This tutorial also helps for installing FreeBSD 11 on physical computer or server.

FreeBSD 11 with LXDE Desktop Installation Steps:

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

Installing FreeBSD 11 with LXDE 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. Today FreeBSD is the most widely used open-source BSD distribution. FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance and security. 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

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

What is LXDE Desktop?

LXDE, which stands for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, is a desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It is designed to be user friendly and slim, while keeping the resource usage low. LXDE uses less RAM and less CPU while being a feature rich desktop environment. Unlike other tightly integrated desktops LXDE strives to be modular, so each component can be used independently with few dependencies. This makes porting LXDE to different distributions and platforms easier.
LXDE Website: http://lxde.org/

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