Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:34:31 -0800 From: David Herman <ob1@yifan.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I bought your system and am not so happy! Message-ID: <20020305033539.B8B9F37B41A@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20020305030843.6B861BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <NJEILFFGFACAOBDNPELNKEFFCAAA.kmccorm1_stevens-tech.edu@ns.sol.net> <200203050248.g252m2S56492@sheol.localdomain> <20020305030843.6B861BA03@i8k.babbleon.org>
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On Monday 04 March 2002 07:08 pm, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > On Monday 04 March 2002 09:48 pm, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > In article <20020305022609.8E7EA37B400_hub.freebsd.org@ns.sol.net>, > > > > ob1@yifan.net writes: > > > I bought your system and I am pretty happy. > > > > > > I'll start w/ my question first then talk about my transition / install > > > experience (experience is probably a m$ trademark by now) > > > > > > Having succesfully installed 4.4 from the powerpack I'm curious whether > > > I should just get ahold of 4.5 and re-install before I get to far. I am > > > really fond of kde2 and seem to remember reading that this is not in > > > the 4.5 dist. is this true or am I just misinformed? -------------snip---------------- > 4.5 omitted some of the "non-essential" KDE2 packages by accident. > > (It bumped them from disk1 on purpose but accidentally failed to include > them on disk 3.) > > The packges can be installed over the network and they should build from > ports. > > This is hypothetical, though -- given both a number of people reporting > crashes on 4.5-RELEASE (being actively discussed here) and the KDE2 > problems I've decided to leave my system in its current state. Owing to > various hardware and non-FreeBSD issues I've re-installed my O/S three > times in the past few months anyway and would just as soon get back to the > important stuff like reading spam and downloading porn anyway :-) > HA!!!! I'm Dying! Thanks for your reply, I'll probably stick to 4.4 for awhile dh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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