From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 6:48:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.host4u.net (gaia.host4u.net [209.150.128.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2788737B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:48:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from andre ([216.71.43.117]) by gaia.host4u.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA19966; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:31:30 -0600 Message-ID: <014601c171d2$22ada240$a50410ac@olmct.net> Reply-To: "Andre` Niel Cameron" From: "Andre` Niel Cameron" To: "Steve Brown" , References: <3BF9B12B.3D521A4D@nycap.rr.com> <0111191831240Q.60958@chip.wiegand.org> <20011119220243.A268@prayforwind.com> <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120061026.A2767@prayforwind.com> Subject: Re: home pc use Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:46:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Brown" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 6:10 AM Subject: Re: home pc use > I've not seen FreeBSD just crash without explanation ever in a year of use. > I have seen netscape whack X twice, just type startx again. I found KDE stable > but too big on this 300m PII, 4G partition amd now I use XFCE or TWM. > > It -is- less intuitive than Windows for sure; you'd better be interested > in learning something about O/S and computers or you may be disappointed. > > Actually I'm one of those who tried it 'cause I wanted a choice other > thane Microsoft (Had the 1'st incarnation of Win98 at the time and I > grew sick of fdisk/formatting on a weekly basis) > I just thought I would add that out of Linux(RH6.2 or 7.1) Windows (95/98/98SE/ME) and FreeBSD 4.x FreeBSD wins hands down everytime. I have never had FreeBSD crash. I run KDE, mostly cause it was the first GUI I ever used besides windows. KDE has never crashed on me, not once. I agree that KDE is a bit heavy on the system, but its worth it weight. If you have the system resources that is:) I found that KDE helped speed the learning process for *nix systems. Coming from the dos/windows enviroment it is a tad confusing learning all the directory structures and system files. I think one of my favorite things about BSD is that when I change things its often as simple as editing a text file. I found that enjoyable as often with bulky windows simple config tasks often required the dreaded reboot:). Jut my 2cents. Regards, Andre` C. Technical Support ---------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message