From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 13:03:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7BF16A4B3 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:03:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40414.mail.yahoo.com (web40414.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2490943FBD for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:03:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from catlord17@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031010200342.87516.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.75.73.109] by web40414.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:03:42 PDT Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:03:42 -0700 (PDT) From: RexFelis To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Building OO from ports. X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:03:42 -0000 --- John Baldwin wrote: > > On 09-Oct-2003 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. > wrote: > > As for the product, my initial impression is > rather favorable, but as > > I'm running 5.1 and waiting for Java, I can't > compare it to OO. > > You can build OO from ports on -CURRENT, btw. > It took about 23 hours > on my P3/700 laptop, but it does work. I used > Impress for the slides > for my BSDCon talk this year. > > -- > > John Baldwin <>< > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I built OO from ports on a dial up connection. Twice. What takes a long time is downloading everything. The compiling takes only a few hours on my computer (1.533 GHz, 512 megs ram). Someone once told me that 'mere mortals' should never attempt to build KDE or OO from ports. This, of course could be nothing other than a challenge, so I tried. It took some work, but I did it. And this is more a testament to the skill of the port teams than myself. Thanks for the great work, Ports teams! Ports rock. Now I can write in my favorite word processor. Of course, TextMaker is looking pretty good right at the moment, as well... Shannon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com