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Dear Polytropon,

U were too polite to introduced this pcbsd. it looks very lucrative. I
am gonna start download today and experiment. Have u used this ? Is
Yahoo Messenger or Skype supported?

- Jahan since FreeBSD 2.2

On 10/6/10, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:50:47 -0500, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar
>> <jahan@bol-online.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Dear colleagues,
>> >
>> > Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users
>> > instead of Windows XP or so, for a virus free journey.
>> >
>> > Is there anyone has actually successfully installed directly from
>> > stable 8.1 /usr/ports/x11/kde4 ?
>> >
>>
>> Sure, I do it regularly, yesterday in fact I built a fresh 8.1 STABLE, and
>> compiled kde4.  Worked like a champ no errors.  However, if you're working
>> with novice users, perhaps RELEASE and it's associated packages would be
>> more suitable than STABLE + ports.
>
> I hope it doesn't sound impolite when I mention this, but why not
> give PC-BSD to novice users? Especially if an "out of the box"
> experience is needed, PC-BSD is fine, as it brings all possible
> stuff preinstalled and preconfigured. Still it's a real FreBSD
> under the hood, so no big "loss".
>
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
>