New Arrival
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:41 am
Hello,
I am new to BSD, coming from "easy" Linux (MX, Xubuntu, etc). What brings me to explore BSD is more than just curiosity, but a little concern about two things:
1. Systemd and it's ever-increasing creep into every part of the OS, and future plans for systemd to "phone home" to God-only-knows who, to report on every little thing the computer does.
2. Microsoft has jumped into Linux with both feet, in a sense "taking over" the Linux Foundation and buying out GitHub.
My concerns are not paranoid fears, just precautionary feelings about what could happen to affect the future of free operating systems. Testing BSD gives me a sense of putting a little extra distance between myself and Microsoft and between me and systemd. I certainly did not expect it to be as easy as it is!
I searched both the software station and these forums for my favorite Internet suite, Seamonkey. It isn't listed among available software for GhostBSD, and the forum posts on Seamonkey are more than a year old, and they don't describe how to add or install it. I'd really like to, since Seamonkey does what both Firefox and Thunderbird do, but with thousands fewer lines of code than Firefox! It's lean and fast. I'd sure like to use it with GhostBSD, and I'd be grateful for someone to show me how to get it.
Thanks in advance from a newbie!
I am new to BSD, coming from "easy" Linux (MX, Xubuntu, etc). What brings me to explore BSD is more than just curiosity, but a little concern about two things:
1. Systemd and it's ever-increasing creep into every part of the OS, and future plans for systemd to "phone home" to God-only-knows who, to report on every little thing the computer does.
2. Microsoft has jumped into Linux with both feet, in a sense "taking over" the Linux Foundation and buying out GitHub.
My concerns are not paranoid fears, just precautionary feelings about what could happen to affect the future of free operating systems. Testing BSD gives me a sense of putting a little extra distance between myself and Microsoft and between me and systemd. I certainly did not expect it to be as easy as it is!
I searched both the software station and these forums for my favorite Internet suite, Seamonkey. It isn't listed among available software for GhostBSD, and the forum posts on Seamonkey are more than a year old, and they don't describe how to add or install it. I'd really like to, since Seamonkey does what both Firefox and Thunderbird do, but with thousands fewer lines of code than Firefox! It's lean and fast. I'd sure like to use it with GhostBSD, and I'd be grateful for someone to show me how to get it.
Thanks in advance from a newbie!