Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 09:45:44 +0200 From: "HEITMEIER, MICHAEL (HP-Germany,ex1)" <michael_heitmeier@bbn.exch.hp.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Successes Message-ID: <9DF3A06E9ABAD211B0D300A0C9B3ED63C657ED@embbnx03.bbn.hp.com>
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Hi all, Since -newbies is also for boasting ;-) I just want to sound off the great feeling I had after the installation of a Soundblaster AWE64 went really well. And let me tell you that I was more than frightened by building my first kernel to include the necessary devices. Following the instructions makes it a piece of cake however. In addition I installed KDE over the weekend. Wow. Now I understand two things: that MS Windows really is a limited piece of software. No wonder they are trying to bundle (or deeply embed) other functionality, by itself the user interface is pretty limited. I now also understand why senior Unix people have such reservations when it comes to Windows or GUI's in general: Even after just a few months of running FreeBSD at most with plain X I was suddenly, thanks to KDE, so far away from the system I understood and was in complete control over. Graphical user interfaces must seem almost frightening to those who are never quite sure (or trusting) what goes on if they 'click' on something... Anyway, for other enterprising souls here are the references I used to help me accomplish the above: * The third edition of the Complete FreeBSD book. * Installation of KDE from the first FreeBDS 3.2 CD (which has a slight bug, some KDE packages require kdelib-1.0 which is not on the CD, only 1.1.1) * Conrad Sabatier's instructions for SB setup at http://members.home.net/conrads/awepnp-freebsd.html <http://members.home.net/conrads/awepnp-freebsd.html>; (which also has a slight problem, kernel.config is called kernel.conf and is in /boot, not root (/) as suggested on the page, also on my system there is no boot.conf but it seems to be happy without it) In summary an altogether very satisfying FreeBSD Sunday afternoon :-) Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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