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[Stan Gammons]

Sam and list, sorry for the top post. That goes with using a mobile device for email.

I like FreeBSD a lot and would like to get KDE4 working with it, but I may try PC-BSD.  I went back to 8.4 and used sysinstall to install KDE4 and it mostly works the way I expect. The one thing that doesn't work the way I expected it when you change consoles and then try to go back to the root console using ctrl alt f1. One finds the console has moved either to f8 or f9. I guess the other problems I have are best asked on the kde list.


Stan


On Jul 31, 2013, at 6:27 AM, "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Stan Gammons <s_gammons at charter.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 04:53 -0400, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
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>> > Stan,
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>> > This is a interesting question and one that I struggled with back when I
>> > first came to open source YEARS ago...
>> > what time and experience will taught me is that, more is almost ALWAYS, NOT
>> > better... so really there is no upside at all to building all of the ports
>> > with all of the options... even if it COULD be done...
>> >
>> > on FreeBSD, I can tell you that the packages are build with the default
>> > options... that is to say... when you type "make install" if the port has
>> > options, whatever is "checked" when the screen comes up, is what the
>> > package would have...
>> 
>> Thanks everyone for the replies on this.  The reason I ask is I continue
>> to struggle to get KDE4 to work the way I want. Or perhaps I should say
>> the way it works on Linux. I've used FreeBSD for several years, but this
>> is the first time I'd tried to make a graphical interface work with it.
>> Perhaps that's a question/problem for another list and best not posted
>> here.
> Stan,
>  Straightup, KDE4 is real hard, getting all the options correct, isn't a science like it should be, in practice it turns out to be more of a witchcraft / balancing act
> my advice is, download PC-BSD:
> http://iso.cdn.pcbsd.org/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/PCBSD9.1-RELEASE-x64-USBFULL-latest.img.bz2
> install it.. use it... see if it works how you want... these guys put a TON of work into it... they have a wifi manager, gpart GUI, app cafe, and its a rolling release...
> if you find that it works the way you like, then hit me up off list, we can "play around" and see what port options to use where...
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>> Stan
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> Sam Fourman Jr.