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Cc: Aftab Jahan Subedar <jahan@bol-online.com>
Subject: Re: KDE
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On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:50:47 -0500, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar <jahan@bol-online.com>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.

I hope it doesn't sound impolite when I mention this, but why not
give PC-BSD to novice users? Especially if an "out of the box"
experience is needed, PC-BSD is fine, as it brings all possible
stuff preinstalled and preconfigured. Still it's a real FreBSD
under the hood, so no big "loss".



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Polytropon
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