dennisdurkin / bsd-xfce

Turn your FreeBSD system in a complete and reliable workstation and creative studio with no hassle in minutes! Feel the daemon inside!

BSD-XFCE

BSD-XFCE is a collection of scripts and FreeBSD filesystem configurations to install a full-pledged and high-performant XFCE enviroment specially optimized for desktop and workstation use without the hassle and with a very beautiful looking for classic macOS users.

Screenshots

Features

• Installs complete XFCE desktop from latest repo
• Installs Creative Suite (Audio/Video & image editing applications)
• Enables high quality sound server with JACK by default
• Enables automount for many filesystems
• Installs latest NVIDIA graphics drivers (No AMD/Intel support for now)
• Enables Linux compatibility layer (default CentOS 7)
• Enables webcam support by default
• Enables general system performance for desktop use
• PF Firewall and security flags enabled by default
• Disables CPU mitigations for Spectre/Meltdown
• Updates CPU microcode
• Improves FreeBSD boot times

Installation (FreeBSD 13/13.*/14)

git clone https://github.com/Wamphyre/BSD-XFCE && sh BSD-XFCE/xfce_desktop.sh

Post-installation (macOS skinpack) <- Optional but recommended

IMPORTANT! Run these scripts with your user, not root.

Step 1: cd xfce4BSD-macOS_skinpack/resources/ && sudo sh install_resources.sh
Step 2 (As regular user): cd xfce4BSD-macOS_skinpack/configurations/ && sh apply.sh

Please, use this scripts only in a fresh FreeBSD installation.

At some point, the script will ask you for username to enable XFCE start exec and other services like automount capabilities.

Authors

• @wamphyre

Credits

• All the good guys at FreeBSD forums
• GhostBSD repository
• NomadBSD repository
• libredeb (For the original XFCE macOS skinpack for Linux)
• Vermaden (For automount and well written documentation)