Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:47:01 +0000 (GMT) From: geoff jukema <gjukema@silk.net> To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X & kde : lovin it! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615174615.13145F-100000@aviator>
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I upgraded my BSD machine recently from the old put-together from useless pieces 386, to a new Pentium 200. I did this because i wanted my faster machine to be FreeBSD with all the goodies; aka X & try out kde. I was really impressed with how little difficulty X really was. I ran the GUI install from the two different options (/stand/sysinstall), and i clicked around a few tabs and before i could say good-bye microsoft, I had a running X windows. I've had much more problems in the recent to not-so recent past with Windows, so i was rather impressed. But on this note, there wasn't much going on, so i read a few paragraphs of various documentation, found out what files to use to configure, installed a couple of apps off CD without a hitch. Then came kde. It looks great and installed just as easy as X. I donwloaded the files (after reading some docs on what was required), and ran add_pkg on it. All i had to do was add a few things to my path, and presto! I guess i don't have much of a point other than to say that if X/kde came in one easy package that modified specified user paths, it would have yet another gain over microsoft. Oh yeah, i was quite impressed that kde found programs like pine, and other misc utilities i had already installed and put them in some menus. Geoff. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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