Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:37:52 -0400 From: "Marcel Mason" <marcel@nunanet.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: X & kde : lovin it! Message-ID: <002e01bd997f$c878d3e0$c62ff7c7@morrigan>
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From: geoff jukema <gjukema@silk.net>
To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 9:01 PM
Subject: X & kde : lovin it!
>I upgraded my BSD machine recently from the old put-together from useless
>pieces 386, to a new Pentium 200. I did this because i wanted my faster
>machine to be FreeBSD with all the goodies; aka X & try out kde.
I'm headed down the same road, I've decided that no matter what the little
devil says BSD & Win95 cannot reside happily on the same machine if there
are multiple people in the household using it (I boot to BSD, they boot to
Win95, I reboot to ... well you get the picture). Add to that the fact that
X
and my video card (Matrox) don't seem to get along too well and a
kde website that is just *far* to easy to get to <grin> and the solution is
clear....
get another box, built for *nix (yes they are available) and leave the other
box
to the rest of those in the house who want it.
>
>I was really impressed with how little difficulty X really was. I ran the
>GUI install from the two different options (/stand/sysinstall), and i
>clicked around a few tabs and before i could say good-bye microsoft, I had
>a running X windows.
Also glad to hear that another newbie made it run, gives me hope that when
the new box arrives I too will experience success !!
>Then came kde. It looks great and installed just as easy as X. I
>donwloaded the files (after reading some docs on what was required), and
>ran add_pkg on it. All i had to do was add a few things to my path, and
>presto!
Makes me happier still, there seem to be a fairly large number of {k}app's
available and I still *do* need to get some regular work done.
Marcel
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