Finally, I got X server up and running with kde 3.5. Installed kde-3.5 from ports using pkg_add -r kde3 After a lot of hassles, I started up kde through an entry into my .bash_profile by doing a startx: if ! ps auxww|grep X|grep -v grep >/dev/null; then startx; fi; Also, added  a symlink:  start-x11vnc@ -> [...]

generally the network should be configured automatically – and should be easy to figure out by doing ifconfig during the setup, sysinstall should have already asked if you want DHCP to be set up – but if you missed it, here’s more… ifconfig sure gave me vr0 as up and running, but didn’t have any [...]

Build service for openSUSE 11.1 (Most of the rpms should work for openSUSE 11.0 and 10.3 also) Guifications plugin for pidgin (download and install): pidgin-guifications-2.16-0.i586.rpm Project page:  plugins.guifications.org/trac/wiki/Guifications Microblogging plugin for pidgin (twitter/ identi.ca/laconi.ca). rpms at OBS Project page: http://code.google.com/p/microblog-purple/

Did this installation on an Intel PII 220 MHz. Lots of hiccups, but it worked. freebsd 7.2 install CDs – get all three of them (though there are more, getting the 3 in order is enough) make sure you have free space of about 5 Gigs and one slot for a primary partition note: a [...]