Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-10-11 08:45, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Tore Lund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I wondered about the same thing some time ago. I was told by one of the > > gurus to try packages-6-stable, which would most likely work with > > 6.1-RELEASE. So I tried to fetch the late

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-10-11 01:20, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Garrett Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I find it interesting that a former Slackware user would be > > complaining about compiling stuff, but you probably used > > slapt-get to update your packages. > > Well, I am probably coming

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:45:56AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > * Tore Lund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I wondered about the same thing some time ago. I was told by one of the > > gurus to try packages-6-stable, which would most likely work with > > 6.1-RELEASE. So I tried to fetch the la

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:53:04AM +0800, ke han wrote: > Patrick, > Since you are already knowledgeable of X-11 apps on slackware, this > opinion may not concern you. > My opinion of FreeBSD is do not try to configure X-11 desktops and > apps with it. Its just too much effort. I have the sa

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-11 Thread Tore Lund
cothrige wrote: > * Tore Lund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I wondered about the same thing some time ago. I was told by one of the >> gurus to try packages-6-stable, which would most likely work with >> 6.1-RELEASE. So I tried to fetch the latest Firefox in this way: >> >> pkg_add [no line break

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-11 Thread cothrige
* Tore Lund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I wondered about the same thing some time ago. I was told by one of the > gurus to try packages-6-stable, which would most likely work with > 6.1-RELEASE. So I tried to fetch the latest Firefox in this way: > > pkg_add [no line break] > ftp://ftp..fre

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-11 Thread Tore Lund
cothrige wrote: > [snip] > However, after reading you post, I am thinking that the packages are > only available for the snapshots labelled RELEASE. Am I right? All > updates and changes made in between one release and the next are via > sources. Would that be accurate? I wondered about the sam

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-10 Thread cothrige
* Garrett Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Btw (Off-topic, but true): > Nothing in Gentoo (or FreeBSD or any other variant of Unix for that > matter) says you have to install KDE ;). You can install the same > metapackage in any Unix OS, if you love the bloat--uh, I mean > functionality--o

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
ke han wrote: Patrick, Since you are already knowledgeable of X-11 apps on slackware, this opinion may not concern you. My opinion of FreeBSD is do not try to configure X-11 desktops and apps with it. Its just too much effort. I have the same opinion of any *nix system that require the user

Re: Getting started with FreeBSD

2006-10-10 Thread ke han
Patrick, Since you are already knowledgeable of X-11 apps on slackware, this opinion may not concern you. My opinion of FreeBSD is do not try to configure X-11 desktops and apps with it. Its just too much effort. I have the same opinion of any *nix system that require the user to install/c