On Fri, August 18, 2006 9:12 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Saturday 19 August 2006 15:47, Reg wrote: >> On Friday 18 August 2006 1:22 am, Christopher Sawtell wrote: >> > On Friday 18 August 2006 19:50, Nick Rout wrote: >> > > BSD does have a nice "integrated" feel to it. I am impressed by the >> up >> > > to date ness (sorry bad english) of the ports system, more up to >> date >> > > in general than my gentoo system, which has become bogged down in >> > > massive popularity vs limited numbers of volunteer maintainers. >> > >> > Should I then toss out Gentoo, and go over to PCBSD? >> > >> > I need KDE, including Scribus, KMail & Konqueror, a full TeX install, >> and >> > Lyx. >> > >> > Perhaps I'll install it onto my smaller hard drive before abandoning >> > Gentoo. >> >> Dont let me influence you, I am new to all this, but it has KDE 3.5 as >> the >> default desktop and Conqueror and of course Kmail which I am using right >> now. >> >> Regards Reg > Well I'm getting it now. I've always wanted to have a go with a *BSD, but > the > earlier versions have always given me some silly installation problem or > other? > > I hope PCBSD-1.2-x86-CD1.iso is the correct file? > > I'm looking forward to a different o/s. Nick's correct about Gentoo, it's > got > serious growing pains.
I could get you a cd tomorrow if you want ot save your bandwidth. Plus the extra packages cd. > > -- > CS >
