@stefano I installed #OS108 and I’m a bit lost on how to install a GUI

I installed @jaypatelani #OS108 onto my #ThinkpadT410 and now I’m not to sure how to install a GUI

I’m going try out #OS108 @jaypatelani

I’m going try out #OS108

@alecui On the desktop side, there is #os108, which basically is #netbsd pre-configured with #xfce. This seems a nice idea, and one of the reasons I think a modernized #gnustep with netbsd would also be a nice combo and maybe for a complete and pure X focused desktop / application toolkit environment. In general, I mostly do telephony related daemons, and for that porting between bsd and linux is not very hard.

@charadon I think you are looking for #os108 from https://os108.org/

I actually used it once when I wanted a quick netbsd desktop because basically it pulls xfce from the pkg repo, maybe changes some configs, but it does not do anything you wouldn't do starting with a stock netbsd release to get xfce going, so it is fully compatible.

@elfin #NetBSD is beautiful, portable, and relatively simple making it potentially easy to work with for servers and devices and especially with odd architectures. Wifi driver support may limit it for some desktop uses, though there is a pre-bundled Xfce desktop as #os108 if one is lazy.

@birddog if one is feeling lazy, I recall there is #ghostbsd which installs #freebsd with a mate desktop without requiring much thought. There is also #os108 as a #netbsd that installs a pre-configured xfce desktop, and I actually tried that once just to see how the concept was executed @jaypatelani but I personally think most about using netbsd for headless devices on unusual architectures and for purpose dedicated servers. However, I should try doing ports for my packages.