From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 06:50:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797361065672 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 06:50:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BECB8FC1A for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 06:50:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm9 with SMTP id 9so5550188fxm.13 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:50:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=SjSwQvDaZyL5mq5+Z3+oOhQn1nX9Uz6qTESV+VLywKU=; b=fAFl2NdNuYkBA9C73I6HHj3rA5I+0i4hNa2ERU5IOqBfuScAXAtizxUKCIg8XihwXs HKIhqqAWUN7SHeClT1T2wEI4Ki0C5px3Dizlm6mHWp4V8C+xOPDEVlmGINMFzg6gkBS/ /vvsUqRhJxodtHu8lDpxIpsGK4xbbSDB8hmqE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=pfFDpYW5uAckc5ae5ujnMAPVWes5WfrKmn7JrjjSKSgH2wpZkwsr9B40i40Y1lcEi2 wA35m0nk0cOwgvW4Kfh/5bOifWy+W5HqO/G6CehUV1mLU+goFZ2LURrcVcV9lMO6etZy C2vkxq1o1fvSAib5YDVhKfWrw2iN/1jDWT7s0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.111.70 with SMTP id r6mr11735030fap.92.1286347847951; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.107.130 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 23:50:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:50:47 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Aftab Jahan Subedar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:50:49 -0000 On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users > instead of Windows XP or so, for a virus free journey. > > Is there anyone has actually successfully installed directly from > stable 8.1 /usr/ports/x11/kde4 ? > Sure, I do it regularly, yesterday in fact I built a fresh 8.1 STABLE, and compiled kde4. Worked like a champ no errors. However, if you're working with novice users, perhaps RELEASE and it's associated packages would be more suitable than STABLE + ports. -- Adam Vande More