Subj : KDE To : ALL From : WILLIAM HURN Date : Wed Nov 21 2001 05:39 pm I like KDE and and the best I've seen to date (also the latest version) is 2.1.1 which came on the FreeBSD 4.3 CD in Annelise Anderson's book. On my first install the XF86Config file I built wasn't "too swell" and I used the file from my Mandrake 7.2 setup. Like most late-model Linux distros, except Slackware, Mandrake sets up XFree86 vertually automatically after asking a few hardware questions. The one I built originly with FreeBSD XF68Setup wasn't as good as the Mandrake build. On the reinstall, I read the fine print more carefully and realized there was an S3 Verge video card option and some other neat refinements (not just the S3 I had used before). I now prefer the FreeBSD build and KDE 2.1.1 is noticably slicker than earlier versions, from the startup logo on! What are GUI are the UNIX "Big Boys" running these days? I hearKDE 3.x is out in Beta. As good as UNIX runs KDE 2.1.1 on an old 15" Princeton E050 with a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, it must be a gas on the heavy weight iron! None of your business why I had to reinstall! Well, all right - - I copied several Linux ncurses and similar files to /usr/lib, to get ztelnet and some other Linux binaries to work. What I copied was, of course, based on FreeBSD error prompts about what was "required but couldn't be found". This was successful in several cases but while fooling with a minicom binary, copied from Slackware 7.1, I messed something up and some other applications quit working. My second install is better anyway! .... Confession is good for the soul - but bad for the career --- MultiMail/FreeBSD v0.41 * Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:18/140) .