From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 03:12:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1703337B401 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDB743F75 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41B237F71; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:11:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.150 ([10.202.2.150] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:11:12 -0400 X-Epoch: 1058523072 X-Sasl-enc: c2gZx/Gpah2CduYOdBg2yw Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.79.132.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.79.132]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D9138AF0; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:11:08 -0400 (EDT) To: Kris Kennaway , Robert Storey References: <20030717133748.33796377.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <20030717124101.GA33306@rot13.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:11:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030717124101.GA33306@rot13.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 3000 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD PowerPak X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:12:27 -0000 On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:41:01 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:37:48PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: >> I recently ordered and received the 4-CD set of FBSD 5.1. >> >> I had presumed that this would give me a pretty complete desktop setup. >> Alas, I was wrong. A lot of very commmon apps are missing, such as >> Xemacs and Mplayer. It's disappointing. I only have a dialup modem. I >> don't have broadband and have no hope of getting it where I live, so I >> was counting on the 4-CD set to fill in the gaps. [snip] Another possibility is to do what I do with my 28.8K dialup - let big stuff run overnight. I just built XFree86 last night, in fact. The package for OpenOffice was an overnight download as well. I don't know as I would want to build the entire KDE or GNOME environments like this, but I've always preferred lighter weight applications (Blackbox, Windowmaker, XFCE4) anyway. Java is a bit of a bugger, since you can't just let it run - have to answer questions along the way. On the other hand, the same licensing requirements that necessitate this prevent it from being distributed on a FreeBSD CD, at least as I understand it. > As you noted, it's based on 4.6, so the contents are a year old. If > you don't mind getting year-old versions of ports, then go for it. > > Kris Is there a possibility that some of the older ports may not build or run on top of 5.x? Jud