[Bulk] FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

[Mike Jeays]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 +0000 (GMT)
Georg Reilinger <georgreilinger at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> 
> My issue is the following:
> 
> As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. 
> 
> Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right in 
> 
> assuming this?
> 
> 
> I am currently running a live version of FreeBSD 8.2 with KDE 4.8. The thing 
> 
> here is, that KDE 4 is simply too heavy for my system. For example: it is 
> 
> impossible for me to have two open shells at the same time. Once I exit a 
> 
> given shell, I can't open another one due to a lack of resources, even after having 
> 
> turned off all the extra stuff - plasma desktop, nepomuk...
> 
> As a consequence, I can see myself do two possible things, to have a system 
> 
> running with KDE 3.5 once again:
> 
> 1. Go back to an older release of FreeBSD and install KDE 3.5 from the 
> 
> precompiled binaries that are on the DVD donwload version.
> Judging by the release announcements, this should be 7.1.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html
> 
> This is something that I don't really feel like doing.
> 
> 2. To be honest, I am quite happy with 8.2 and I would like to keep it for 
> some time to come. In other words, is there a way to keep 8.2 and still 
> have KDE 3.5 along with it? For example has anyone ever tried to 
> install a 7.1 pre-built package (KDE 3.5 in this case) on an 8.2 system? 
> Is that be possible?
> 
> 
> Any other solutions?
> 
> 
> Many thanks
> Georg
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I run xfce4 with FreeBSD 9.0 on an old Pentium 4 with 1.5 GB, and it works well. Resource
requirements are much less than the latest KDE, and Unity is even more unworkable.
KDE and Gnome have got very bloated in the last few years, IMHO and less intuitive.
They seem to be going backwards. The multiple desktop feature is one of the main
things that set Unix-style desktops way ahead of Windows, and now they have become
harder to use.