Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:30:51 +0600 From: Aftab Jahan Subedar <jahan@bol-online.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE Message-ID: <AANLkTikAmH9D%2BZyc68auOxWh_4nwtE2BjZhvo7kv8pf5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101006133637.b625241c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <AANLkTikD9udvRKUMGE3cJy=9FmrSCoT-3OPKSUY7e=dk@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=eUY8AAeKyLOaCoafGhwJ9xRVLqh0F=j0H%2BBm=@mail.gmail.com> <20101006133637.b625241c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Dear Polytropon, U were too polite to introduced this pcbsd. it looks very lucrative. I am gonna start download today and experiment. Have u used this ? Is Yahoo Messenger or Skype supported? - Jahan since FreeBSD 2.2 On 10/6/10, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > 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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