From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 05:45:58 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 DD8A137B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 05:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.uits.uconn.edu (mail2.uits.uconn.edu [137.99.25.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1437843F85 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 05:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@forsetti.com) Received: from forsetti.com (d80h149.public.uconn.edu [137.99.80.149]) by mail2.uits.uconn.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4FCjs200484 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 08:45:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3EC38C02.3020900@forsetti.com> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:45:54 -0400 From: Matthew Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030509 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20030514192851.GC1751@gothmog.gr> <20030515032555.99908.qmail@web40409.mail.yahoo.com> <20030515122149.GB677@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030515122149.GB677@gothmog.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: 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 12:45:59 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >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 >> >> > >:) > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > As I build my li'l brother a new box for school, I would love to put FreeBSD, (or even Linux if I had to) on it, especially when faced with $$$ for WinXP. Unfortunately, for him to get support at school (small music school, too far away for me to support him), it's got to be either Windows or Mac. I'm considering talking him into a Mac/OSX, but I can build him something MUCH cheaper, even if it does get WinXP. Too bad I can't build him a Mac!