Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:44:13 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Marc Schneiders" <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: KDE problems Message-ID: <053201bef7f8$9068f420$857e03cb@jdy>
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>>| I didn't see the question but if it wasn't answered by someone more >>| knowledgable yet you may need to re-phrase the question. >There was no reply whatsoever. I don't know any other relevant information >to add. Dmesg would be useless. Well I haven't a clue what "Dmesg" does anyway so you are obviously a way ahead of me on that score. I get confused enough with the basic stuff so I try to only learn just the bare essentials of what I need to sort out the immediate issue. that way I can absorb stuff in small enough doses so I don't get brain overload. >>| I've always >>| had responses (although generally critical of Microsoft email clients) >>| when posting questions from Outlook so I doubt thats an issue. >>| >Have you? I am not so sure. As far as I can see newbie type questions are >not answered on some BSD-lists at least. Maybe not the Free one. I know a couple of the contributors hate newbies but thankfully most of the experts do at least try to help. We really should make a point of using only email clients that don't make them mad though ..... Outlook email does look a bit messy in unix .... I'll install Eudora this morning as it seems to do a bit more acceptable presentation for people receiving in the likes of Pine >>I have had no problems either with Linux, or BSD for that matter before >>this. I really think BSD is better suited as a server installation than a workstation anyway, as it seems to do that job better than any linux, I probably won't use linux again personally as I don't have time for the fanatic attitude of most of the faithful, and the docs are utterly unintelligible ..... at least FreeBSD equivalents are a bit more readable even if most of them still go right over my head. I guess I can see I will be able to wade through the BSD stuff someday whereas I don't see how anyone can get anyplace with linux MAN's & HOWTO's >>I took the easy one, the FreeBSD package, kde-1.1.1. >>Maybe I should have done it through the ports. Problem is that this often >>fails as not all ftp-sites from which ports get files support passive ftp, >>which I need. Which means being stuck half way with a lot of garbage around >>and nothing working. So I get the packages myself and install them and then >>when they fail over a missing dependency I get that or those, install them >>and then again the thing I wanted. Worked until now fine for me. But I think >>this is *not* the cause of my problems. I might be missing something, but why not just go purchase a CD distribution .... thats the only way I've been able to get installation to work without major problems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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