From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 05:30:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4F537B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 05:30:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thalia.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAECC43F75 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 05:30:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b182.otenet.gr [212.205.244.190]) by thalia.otenet.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4FCUHg4016515; Thu, 15 May 2003 15:30:19 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4FCU9Z9000986; Thu, 15 May 2003 15:30:15 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4FCLnZt000936; Thu, 15 May 2003 15:21:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:21:49 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: catlord17@yahoo.com Message-ID: <20030515122149.GB677@gothmog.gr> References: <20030514192851.GC1751@gothmog.gr> <20030515032555.99908.qmail@web40409.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030515032555.99908.qmail@web40409.mail.yahoo.com> cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Yahoo!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:30:25 -0000 On 2003-05-14 20:25, RexFelis wrote: >--- Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Good, good. This is great news! >> We have another FreeBSD'er :-) > > Indeed you do. Now I find myself having to bite my tongue when I surf > my old Linux-centric haunts and I see someone describe a frustration I > find easily solved with FreeBSD... heheh > > I'm not against Linux, of course, but it just seems less than ideal > now. And of course now I have to resist the urge to switch my mom and > girlfriend over from their long-stable Mandrake boxes. :) Nah. If it works, don't break it. I'm slowly passing hints and small tips to my mother about OpenOffice and gnome too. She's happy and works fine with her Windows desktop so far, so pushing things isn't good. But localised versions of a few programs is all she needs: - A word processor. - An email reader. - A web browser. - A spell checker. That's more or less all that most users need from a workstation these days. (Well, these and a player for multimedia files). > Tinkering always causes me trouble, but I'm kind of addicted. lol :)