From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 14:41:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972F41065673 for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 14:41:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@db.net) Received: from diana.db.net (diana.db.net [204.228.229.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E0E8FC1A for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 14:41:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@db.net) Received: from diana.db.net ([204.228.229.66] helo=localhost ident=mailnull) by diana.db.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ju7JI-000E0i-8c; Thu, 08 May 2008 08:41:28 -0600 Received: from diana.db.net ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost) (envelope-from ) id 1Ju7JE-0007Pd-4X; Thu, 08 May 2008 10:41:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 10:41:23 -0400 From: Diane Bruce To: Lars Engels Message-ID: <20080508144123.GA25737@night.db.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20080508000607.724b9fbb@gb7tf> <20080507185120.72805156x53jtlcs@intranet.encontacto.net> <20080508021822.GB62023@night.db.net> <20080508084151.15455ba1@gb7tf> <20080508135442.tiziw7dvcwgwwg8s@0x20.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080508135442.tiziw7dvcwgwwg8s@0x20.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: "freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: k3b devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 14:41:33 -0000 On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 01:54:42PM +0200, Lars Engels wrote: > Quoting Richard Bown : > ... > >BTW OpenOffice has built, but its not starting from the desktop . > > > About k3b: It works fine. You should read it's pkg-message (was > displayed after the installation of k3b): > pkg_info -Dx k3b I hadn't tried k3b before, so I compiled it up last night. It's rather cool eh? Sure beats mkisofs. > About OpenOffice: Normally, you can use packages for big apps like > Openoffice. > ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/2.2.1/FreeBSD7/ I hadn't known about this myself. It's always "a learning experience." Or if I had, I had forgotten. Thanks either way. > > As you have already installed it, try to start it from a console and > see which error message you get. My guess is Richard is trying to start openoffice but the binary is openoffice.org-2.4.0; a sym link from openoffice to openoffice.org-2.4.0 as part of the install would be nice IMO. > > There's no need to go back to Linux, you just have to think a bit > different in FreeBSD ;-) Or use one of the more user friendly packaged versions of FreeBSD, i.e. PCBSD or desktopbsd. I personally like PCBSD, but Richard felt it hid a bit too much from the user. Perhaps that is less true of desktopbsd; I don't know. All in all, it I think I'm learning a lot and perhaps the community (FreeBSD community) about what we could do better. Richard has pointed out some failings we need to look at. I'm going to set followups to freebsd-chat, I think that's probably the best place now. -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db