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Subject: Message from a new fan
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 02:54:25 +0200
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I just wanted to say that you guys do a damn good job at creating/maintaining 
a such an awesome operating system! And the price is 0.00 + telephone costs!

Here is the story from last weekend:

I was in search of a Linux distro that could be downloaded. So I stumbled 
upon FreeBSD and decided to give it a try.

First I installed FreeBSD 4.2 via FTP with PPP. I succeeded at the x'th 
attempt ;-) (gave up counting how many times I booted the floppies) Then I 
tried installing KDE 2.0, but it didn't work. Konqueror complain about 
"coun't create view for text/html" and other apps are exploding too...

Then I tried to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.3 RC 3 but you can't install it via 
FTP/PPP, it complains that the tunnel device isn't present. So I downloaded 
the "bin" and "crypto" (<-- because I read in the mail archives that 
"libssl.so.2" is conained in the crypto) distros onto my Windows partition 
and installed from there. No problem here too.

Now I can run KDE 2.1.1 and it works with no problem at all. I am currently 
writing this mail in K-Mail :-) Next I will try KDevelop.

many greetings and 
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
-chris


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