I recently ordered and received the 4-CD set of FBSD 5.1. I had presumed that this would give me a pretty complete desktop setup. Alas, I was wrong. A lot of very commmon apps are missing, such as Xemacs and Mplayer. It's disappointing. I only have a dialup modem. I don't have broadband and have no hope of getting it where I live, so I was counting on the 4-CD set to fill in the gaps.
I noticed on the FreeBSDmall web site that they sell a PowerPak with 10 CDs. This is supposed to be the entire ports collection. Sounds like just what I need - except it's based on FBSD 4.6 which is one year old. So my question - I am wondering if the distfiles in this PowerPak are going to be of much use? Shelling out $40 isn't such a great hardship if the disfiles work as advertised, but I'm going to be more than a little pissed if it generates nothing but error messages. Does anybody know if the PowerPak will work with 5.1? Has anyone actually tried it? TIA, Robert _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
