In this tutorial, user Arun Pyasi will show us how to get MATE desktop environment set up on FreeBSD 11. Follow the link below for the full set of instructions.

Mate is a free and open source desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like operating system which is a fork of the now-unmaintained code base of GNOME 2 desktop environment. It is under active development to add support for new technologies while preserving a traditional desktop experience. FreeBSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system based on BSD systems. Unlike Linux, FreeBSD is developed as an entire operating system from kernel, device drivers to the userland utilities whereas linux is a kernel with device drivers. FreeBSD is heavily used from high end servers, datacenters, office computers to home machines and small devices. In this article, we’ll install Mate Desktop Environment in FreeBSD 11 operating system.

Full tutorial: http://linoxide.com/unix/mate-desktop-installation-freebsd-11/

This tutorial by user Arul shows us how to get FreeBSD 10.2 set up with the MATE desktop environment.

Original: http://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/install-freebsd-10-2-mate-desktop/

FreeBSD/free Unix-like operating system is advanced computer operating system used for modern computer, desktop and embedded platform. FreeBSD available for all platform include PowerPC and ARM. It is advanced operating system for networking, security and storage, with these advantages make a FreeBSD the platform of choice for many big company, including Apache, Apple, Cisco, Citrix etc.

FreeBSD is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed by Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) and released under BSD License. You can install it for your server, and you can use it too for your primary computer desktop with many Desktop Environment such as Gnome, XFCE, KDE and Mate etc.

Prerequisites

in this article will be taught step by step to install FreeBSD on a desktop computer, I use FreeBSD 64 bits with the following specifications :

• Memory 1 GB
• Disk 25 GB

and also continued with a guide to install a desktop environment “Mate” on FreeBSD, so you can use it for your daily activity.

Installing FreeBSD 10.2

1. Download FreeBSD from https://www.freebsd.org/where.html and make a bootable from it. You can use file “.iso” if you want to burn to the CD/DVD, and if you want to make a USB Bootable, you must download “.img” file. If you use ubuntu/other linux distribution, you can use “dd” command to make a FreeBSD usb bootable. I’m here use a USB for media installation, so you can make a bootable by this command :

dd bs=4M if=/file/img/FreeBSD.img of=/dev/sdX && sync

2. When a USB bootable been made, please setting your BIOS to make it boot from a USB flashdisk and then reboot your system, and after that you will see a FreeBSD menu, you can choose number “1″ or just press “Enter“.

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