From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 15 17:48:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29996 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aviator.jukeware.com (kel025.silk.net [204.244.76.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29921 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:47:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjukema@silk.net) Received: from localhost (gjukema@localhost) by aviator.jukeware.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA13150 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:47:01 GMT (envelope-from gjukema@silk.net) X-Authentication-Warning: aviator.jukeware.com: gjukema owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:47:01 +0000 (GMT) From: geoff jukema X-Sender: gjukema@aviator To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X & kde : lovin it! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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