Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 13:36:37 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Aftab Jahan Subedar <jahan@bol-online.com> Subject: Re: KDE Message-ID: <20101006133637.b625241c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=eUY8AAeKyLOaCoafGhwJ9xRVLqh0F=j0H%2BBm=@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTikD9udvRKUMGE3cJy=9FmrSCoT-3OPKSUY7e=dk@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=eUY8AAeKyLOaCoafGhwJ9xRVLqh0F=j0H%2BBm=@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:50:47 -0500, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar <jahan@bol-online.com>wrote: > > > Dear colleagues, > > > > Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users > > instead of Windows XP or so, for a virus free journey. > > > > Is there anyone has actually successfully installed directly from > > stable 8.1 /usr/ports/x11/kde4 ? > > > > Sure, I do it regularly, yesterday in fact I built a fresh 8.1 STABLE, and > compiled kde4. Worked like a champ no errors. However, if you're working > with novice users, perhaps RELEASE and it's associated packages would be > more suitable than STABLE + ports. I hope it doesn't sound impolite when I mention this, but why not give PC-BSD to novice users? Especially if an "out of the box" experience is needed, PC-BSD is fine, as it brings all possible stuff preinstalled and preconfigured. Still it's a real FreBSD under the hood, so no big "loss". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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