From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 14:08:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8336816A4BF for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (papagena.rockefeller.edu [129.85.41.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E89743FF5 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:08:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) h83L7V9H016023; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:07:31 -0400 Received: (from rsidd@localhost) by papagena.rockefeller.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h83L7Ufn016021; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:07:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:07:30 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Darren Pilgrim Message-ID: <20030903210730.GA16006@online.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Darren Pilgrim , Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030903132457.3602c35e.dmp@bitfreak.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20-20.9smp i686 cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 21:08:19 -0000 > You've said that KDE is only partially function under FreeBSD more than > once now. Would you please elaborate on this? He listed three alleged shortcomings, all of which are bogus. Kppp (internet dialer): it works fine with FreeBSD's bundled pppd (which is the same as the one in linux, though perhaps an older version). I should know, I used it for nearly two years before I got broadband (and occasionally after, too, most recently with 5.0-CURRENT (post-RELEASE) and KDE 3.1). If something broke in the last 2 months, a PR should be filed, but I doubt that's what happened. Printing: it works fine, as it should, the BSD lpr was default in most linux distributions till recently and CUPS, which is taking over, is part of FreeBSD's ports; KDE works with both but the KDE port in FreeBSD pulls in CUPS by default. Power management: yes there are problems, but that applies to linux too. In fact FreeBSD's ACPI support is probably a bit better than linux's, and KDE's laptop daemon can be configured with the exact acpi commands required to standby/suspend/hibernate the system. - Rahul