On Wednesday 24 Nov 2004 23:20, you wrote:
> and all kde-based web applications (konqueror,kmail,kopete)
> are incredibly slow connecting to sites.

One of the reasons I moved to NetBSD was that FreeBSD gave me the same 
problems, I was, having abandoned FreeBSD, informed that it may have been 
something to do with the hostname/domain name in someway conflicting with 
KDE. I'' see if I can obtain further details.

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John Seago
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