Chapter 3. Customizing the Desktop

Now that you've successfully installed PC-BSD, you'll want to become familiar with your new system. Part 2 of this book will show you how to customize your PC-BSD environment, perform common computing tasks, and configure every aspect of your system. You'll discover a lot of cool features as you work your way through the chapters in Part 2. These chapters are also handy to refer to whenever you're wondering "How do I do this?"

KDE4

PC-BSD version 8.0, the focus of this book, uses the KDE4 (KDE version 4) desktop environment by default.

Tip

In Windows, the desktop is part of the operating system. This means that you can customize your desktop, but you can't install a different desktop. In open source, the desktop ...

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