Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:07:30 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster Message-ID: <20030903210730.GA16006@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <20030903132457.3602c35e.dmp@bitfreak.org>
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> You've said that KDE is only partially function under FreeBSD more than > once now. Would you please elaborate on this? He listed three alleged shortcomings, all of which are bogus. Kppp (internet dialer): it works fine with FreeBSD's bundled pppd (which is the same as the one in linux, though perhaps an older version). I should know, I used it for nearly two years before I got broadband (and occasionally after, too, most recently with 5.0-CURRENT (post-RELEASE) and KDE 3.1). If something broke in the last 2 months, a PR should be filed, but I doubt that's what happened. Printing: it works fine, as it should, the BSD lpr was default in most linux distributions till recently and CUPS, which is taking over, is part of FreeBSD's ports; KDE works with both but the KDE port in FreeBSD pulls in CUPS by default. Power management: yes there are problems, but that applies to linux too. In fact FreeBSD's ACPI support is probably a bit better than linux's, and KDE's laptop daemon can be configured with the exact acpi commands required to standby/suspend/hibernate the system. - Rahul
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