From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 6: 2:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A909737B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C2243E70 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:02:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 0E3DF4FA51; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:00:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B574A0D; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:00:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:00:09 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Matthias Trevarthan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappointed with FreeBSD 4.6 In-Reply-To: <200208220857.08902.trevarthan@wingnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Matthias Trevarthan wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:57:08 -0400 > From: Matthias Trevarthan > 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