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Date:      Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:41:00 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster
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In-Reply-To: <20030903132457.3602c35e.dmp@bitfreak.org>
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At 02:24 PM 9/3/2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote:

>You've said that KDE is only partially function under FreeBSD more than
>once now.  Would you please elaborate on this?  I use FreeBSD+KDE as my
>desktop and, short of a more complete Windows emulator, I haven't found
>anything I could do in Windows or Linux that I can't do in FreeBSD+KDE.

Subsystems of KDE that are difficult if not impossible to use with FreeBSD 
include:

* Printing (if you can get it to work at all, it's only via a dozen or
  so GPLed utilities that must be hand-configured and tweaked because
  FreeBSD is not Linux);

* Audio (About all that seems to work on any FreeBSD machine I've ever
  tried is sound effects);

* PPP (they use kernel PPP rather than FreeBSD's userland PPP); and

* Power management (fails to work or crashes on every laptop I've tried
  it on).

And these are only the ones I've either watched people butt heads with or
given up trying to make 100% functional.

Not to mention the fact, again, that the whole mess is GPLed, which means
that it's basically the end of one's professional career as a programmer
if one views and alters the source code.

--Brett




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