Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 10:41:57 -0500 From: "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com> To: 'Andrew Gallatin' <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Ok, I can't be the only one! Message-ID: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A04EEC5B7@waexch1.qgraph.com>
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I do not know if KDE3 is in ports yet, it would be nice. I have gotten that and Gnome working on Debian/Alpha, but it was a pain as well. I don't have the coding experience or knowledge. <sigh> It looks as though I will have to bite the bullet and start taking C++ classes. I guess I was not screaming that people fix the "broken" ports, it was more or less meant for me get some reassurance that I am not lame or too incompetent to install software. Also it was meant to make people aware of what's happening to an average user installing BSD. I guess I was whining. Sorry, I was frustrated. That is funny, Mozilla and Galeon installed on Debian via their apt-get system. Again, it was convoluted and I had to upgrade my machine to unstable-testing. I am running 4.5-STABLE right now. The citrix isn't the end of the world: We are basically a Windows company. There are installations of Linux, VMS, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, etc. I just wanted to get away from my crappy Windows desktop, but in order to stay functional I would need to connect to terminal servers. No biggie. I wish I was in charge of the mail servers here, I would have never gone to Exchange... :) Thanks for the help/advice so far! AJ -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:00 AM To: Schroeder, Aaron Cc: 'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: Ok, I can't be the only one! Schroeder, Aaron writes: > Or maybe I can be the only one not able to install (via ports only, no > sources) a lot of packages. Namely, desktop managers and applications, the > list is as follows: > > KDE2 > Gnome I"ve made these compile in the past. You need somebody with coding skills and time/motivation to fix them for alpha. The problem is that these things take SO damned long to compile that getting them working is an all-day background job. And if you're compiling them on your desktop, they tend to install in peices and if things break, you're left with a partly installed mess. So if (like me) you already have working versions, you're not terrible inclined to mess with them. Hmm.. is KDE3 in ports yet? I might want to try to make that work, as I would sure like a better Konqueror.... > Mozilla I've NEVER been able to get this to compile. > Netscape This should just work. I can look into this almost immedately. > Galeon (which requires mozilla) See Mozilla comment :-( > Citrix ICA Never tried it. > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> > <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> Please teach your MTA to not spam the mailing list with html'ized mail. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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