From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 1 8:42:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from qescan2.qgraph.com (QESCAN2.qgraph.com [206.158.124.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A59BE37B400 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 08:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 192.168.200.29 by qescan2.qgraph.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Wed, 01 May 2002 10:42:02 -0500 Received: by sxsmtp2.qgraph.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 1 May 2002 10:42:00 -0500 Message-ID: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A04EEC5B7@waexch1.qgraph.com> From: "Schroeder, Aaron" To: 'Andrew Gallatin' Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Ok, I can't be the only one! Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 10:41:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. 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. > > > > > 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