From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 16 16:40:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20411 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 16:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from natsiq.nunanet.com (root@natsiq.nunanet.com [199.247.47.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA20392 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 16:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@nunanet.com) Received: from morrigan (ppp-198.nunanet.com [199.247.47.198]) by natsiq.nunanet.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA23629 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:34:27 -0400 Message-ID: <002e01bd997f$c878d3e0$c62ff7c7@morrigan> From: "Marcel Mason" To: Subject: Re: X & kde : lovin it! Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:37:52 -0400 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 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----Original Message----- From: geoff jukema To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 9:01 PM Subject: X & kde : lovin it! >I upgraded my BSD machine recently from the old put-together from useless >pieces 386, to a new Pentium 200. I did this because i wanted my faster >machine to be FreeBSD with all the goodies; aka X & try out kde. I'm headed down the same road, I've decided that no matter what the little devil says BSD & Win95 cannot reside happily on the same machine if there are multiple people in the household using it (I boot to BSD, they boot to Win95, I reboot to ... well you get the picture). Add to that the fact that X and my video card (Matrox) don't seem to get along too well and a kde website that is just *far* to easy to get to and the solution is clear.... get another box, built for *nix (yes they are available) and leave the other box to the rest of those in the house who want it. > >I was really impressed with how little difficulty X really was. I ran the >GUI install from the two different options (/stand/sysinstall), and i >clicked around a few tabs and before i could say good-bye microsoft, I had >a running X windows. Also glad to hear that another newbie made it run, gives me hope that when the new box arrives I too will experience success !! >Then came kde. It looks great and installed just as easy as X. I >donwloaded the files (after reading some docs on what was required), and >ran add_pkg on it. All i had to do was add a few things to my path, and >presto! Makes me happier still, there seem to be a fairly large number of {k}app's available and I still *do* need to get some regular work done. Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message