<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi everybody,</div><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">I know that I am not subscribed to this list, but getting on here seems to be <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">a somewhat difficult task and I promise that my email won't be a spam one :)</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">My issue is
the following:<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right in <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">assuming this?<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">I am
currently running a live version of FreeBSD 8.2 with KDE 4.8. The thing <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">here is that KDE 4 is simply too heavy for my system. For example: it is <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">impossible for me to have two open shells at the same time. Once I exit a <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">given shell, I can't open another one due to a lack of resources, even after having <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">turned off all the extra stuff -
plasma desktop, nepomuk...</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">As a consequence, I can see myself do two possible things, to have a system <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">running with KDE 3.5 once again:</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;
background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">1. go back to an older release of FreeBSD and install KDE 3.5 from the <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">precompiled binaries that are on the DVD donwload version.<br></div>Judging by the release announcements, this should be 7.1.<br><br>http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html<br><br>This is something that I don't really feel like doing.<br><br>2. To be honest, I am quite happy with 8.2 and I would like to keep it for <br>some time to come. In other words, is there a way to keep 8.2 and still <br>have KDE 3.5 along with it? For example has anyone ever tried to <br>install a 7.1 pre-built package (KDE 3.5 in this case) on an 8.2 system? <br>Is that possible?<br><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;
background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Any other solutions?<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Many thanks</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div>Georg</div></body></html>