From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 13:42:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay2.adelphia.net (smtprelay2.adelphia.net [64.8.25.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC0FA37B670 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 13:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adelphia.net ([24.50.186.158]) by smtprelay2.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G1XAQD00.PUI; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:39:49 -0400 Message-ID: <39DC3F6D.78898C8E@adelphia.net> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 04:44:30 -0400 From: Nader Turki X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree 4.x References: <14810.28788.25830.674440@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for your reply :) I'll get it from the Ports, but can someone help me and tell me for example if i wanna be using XFree86 4.x eith KDE. What ports do i need to install exactly? I mean do I just: cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4; make install then cd /usr/ports/x11/kde11; make install And that's it? Please let me know which ones I need to install to get XFree86-4.x + KDE Thanks, -Nader Mike Meyer wrote: > Nader Turki writes: > > I was wondering if the next FreeBSD release will be with XFree86 4.x. > > You can use XFree86 4.x on the current release; you just have to > install it from the port. When you do so, you get a message that > starts: > > XFree86 4.0 may contain vulnerabilities yielding root privileges to > local users, due to insecure coding of the setuid root X server. > > This means it's not a good idea to install it as the default > server. Until that gets fixed (and the xfree86 group has to fix it), > that won't change. > >