From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 29 8:41:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pop03.globecomm.net (pop03.globecomm.net [206.253.130.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5471215368; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:41:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zen@buddhist.com) Received: from WhizKid (r33.bfm.org [208.18.213.129]) by pop03.globecomm.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id LAA24999; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:40:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990329103358.008fe920@mail.bfm.org> X-Sender: stanislav@mail.bfm.org (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:33:58 -0600 To: Marty Poulin From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.19990326213540.008f2c90@mail.bfm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 00:01 29-03-1999 -0500, Marty Poulin wrote: >Have you taken a look at the ports collection? There is a "metaport" that >installs everything you need for KDE in there - it's what I used and it >worked quite well. Yes, thank you. I have since found and installed it. And I definitely need more memory. :-( I am going to experiment with bigger swap area to see if it works for now. Just received a tip from Unix Guru Universe how to increase the swap area without label, so I want to play with that. >No, no. Any software written for X will run in X, regardless of the >window manager. There are applications written specifically for KDE which >will only run under KDE, but you can run any X application in KDE or >afterstep or FVWM... that's the whole nature of X. Oh good. Thanks, Adam --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message