Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:37:48 +0800 From: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FBSD PowerPak Message-ID: <20030717133748.33796377.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
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I recently ordered and received the 4-CD set of FBSD 5.1. I had presumed that this would give me a pretty complete desktop setup. Alas, I was wrong. A lot of very commmon apps are missing, such as Xemacs and Mplayer. It's disappointing. I only have a dialup modem. I don't have broadband and have no hope of getting it where I live, so I was counting on the 4-CD set to fill in the gaps. I noticed on the FreeBSDmall web site that they sell a PowerPak with 10 CDs. This is supposed to be the entire ports collection. Sounds like just what I need - except it's based on FBSD 4.6 which is one year old. So my question - I am wondering if the distfiles in this PowerPak are going to be of much use? Shelling out $40 isn't such a great hardship if the disfiles work as advertised, but I'm going to be more than a little pissed if it generates nothing but error messages. Does anybody know if the PowerPak will work with 5.1? Has anyone actually tried it? TIA, Robert
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