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From: Jacques Vidrine <nectar@NECTAR.COM>
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Only KDE depends upon Qt, which doesn't have an appropriate software
license. 

Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>

On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Alex wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> <plug>
> Speaking of an out of box experience, KDE works quite nicely.  It's kinda
> a CDE/Motif meets Win95 type thing, with a bunch of little applets for
> stuff from user managment to basic text editing to games.  I think this
> would make a nice "X" enviroment for a graphical sysinstall.  All of which
> might make using FreeBSD a less daunting desktop (or even server) OS.
> </plug>
> 
> www.kde.org
> 
> "Every finger in the room is pointing at me" Tori Amos
> 
> - alex
> 
>