Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 20:24:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> To: mw0102@cnsvax.albany.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, michael dan wolfe <mw0102@cnsvax.albany.edu> Subject: RE: freeBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.970426204632.joki@jocki.domestic.de> In-Reply-To: <3362237A.81124269@cnsvax.albany.edu>
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Michael,
please try and switch off the "html" option of your mailing program since many
people here will answer your questions more readily when they can read them.
FreeBSD is a UNIX and not designed for user-friendliness (apart from the saying
that UNIX _is_ user-friendly, it just knows who it's friends are! ;)
But, compared to Linux, I can say that there is quite little "mess" a newbie
has to dig through in FreeBSD as there are many simple rules that help you find
config files and do setup tasks more easily.
And -- after all there is this list (freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) that will
help you when you get hopelessly lost.
So what I mean is that if you want to start using UNIX FreeBSD is the system to
go for. But be prepared to be faced with a lot more "options" than Windows95
has, and be prepared to set them all right! Then you soon won't need your
Windows95 partition and you'll be able to use a new 'slice' for your FreeBSD. ;)
c u Jo
On 26-Apr-97 at 15:47:06 michael dan wolfe wrote:
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>i'm inquiring because i run win95 and believe that FreeBSD is more stable,
>and in some cases easier to use (once it's properties are known) it also
>has many more options, the only problem is, i know nothing about UNIX.
>would this OS still be a good choice for me at this time, or should i read
>up on and work with UNIX before i try to use FreeBSD (along with win95
>on a dual boot)
><BR>-Michael Wolfe
>
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