From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 8 3:21:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scrabble.freeuk.net (scrabble.freeuk.net [212.126.144.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9140A14C3D for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 03:21:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Matt@stratdude.freeuk.com) Received: from [212.126.147.230] (helo=bluejeans) by scrabble.freeuk.net with smtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 11kmrM-0007RO-00; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:21:16 +0000 Message-ID: <006a01bf29db$6795a420$e6937ed4@bluejeans> From: "Matt" To: "Sheldon Hearn" Cc: References: <40554.942059494@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: I am confused. Please help. Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:21:29 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 21:21:53 GMT, "Matt" wrote: > > > I read http://www.freebsd.org/ports/kde.html and saw that kde-1.1.2 is > > mentioned. > > Yes. The webpages describe the _current_ state of the ports tree. I thought it might be something like that. > > Could someone explain to me why my FreeBSD 3.3 CD's from Walnut Creek have > > only KDE-1.1.1? > > Certainly. The commit logs for the port indicate that the port was > updated to 1.1.2 on 1999/09/18, _after_ the release was cut. Thats pretty obvious when I think about it. > > There are other discrepancies too. > > None of which we can help you with unless you describe them. :-) More of the same really. Enlightenment was another example. Nothing too serious. I had to make a decision between another Linux distro or FreeBSD. Since FBSD seemed pretty recent I went with that. Thanks for the answers. Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message