Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:00:09 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Matthias Trevarthan <trevarthan@wingnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappointed with FreeBSD 4.6 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208220858590.17516-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <200208220857.08902.trevarthan@wingnet.net>
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Matthias Trevarthan wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:57:08 -0400 > From: Matthias Trevarthan <trevarthan@wingnet.net> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Disappointed with FreeBSD 4.6 > > FreeBSD isn't really for the squeemish. > > It took me a LONG time to get my KDE desktop up and running, but most of that > delay was due to my lack of experience with KDE. > > If you want a plug-and-play solution, then go download a linux distribution. > > I think FreeBSD is more suited for server use anyway. > > After all that hard work, I've got nothing to gripe about. Once FreeBSD is set > up, it runs without complaining for a long long time. > > Matthias > KDE3 worked out-of-the-box for me on 4.6 - previously I'd built it from source, but this time I installed KDE3 at install time. No effort. My Mom has been running KDE3 for a while now - she rellay likes it :-) Sorry for the mid-post-post. > > On Thursday 22 August 2002 08:51 am, Martin Lozada wrote: > > Dear Poeple, > > > > I installed FreeBSD 4.6 on my computer few days ago. I chose as desktop > > Gnome+sawfish. No problems during the installation but after it began > > the nightmare. I finally got running startx and what I got was a gnome > > desktop without icons . Nautilus didn't start, due to an unexpected > > error. The error has to do with OAF. I think it's just the beginning. I > > think I wait for a better version of FreeBSD before performing a new > > installation. > > > > Regards, > > > > Martin L. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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