From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 23:22:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EBD637B405 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 23:22:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 92018 invoked by uid 100); 5 Mar 2002 07:22:21 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15492.29227.910886.671669@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 01:22:19 -0600 To: "Kevin McCormick" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: I bought your system and am not so happy! In-Reply-To: <59884833@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 Kevin McCormick types: Why don't you take this, and submit a PR suggesting that it - or something like it - be put in /etc/motd? > ---SAMPLE--- > > Welcome to FreeBSD! > > This is your new operating system, so welcome to UNIX, etc. etc. > > - To learn how to set up your sound card now, type 'man pcm' > - To start XFree86, type 'startx' > - To re-run setup, type /stand/sysinstall > - To learn more about the FreeBSD ports collection, type 'man ports' > - To learn how to customize your system more type .... > - To set change how you log onto your computer, type 'man xdm' 'man getty' > etc... > - For more, type 'man nowthatyouveinstalledfreebsdwhattodonow' > > ---STOP SAMPLE--- I'm not sure how to handle login, though. > And, lastly, someone needs to start working on a graphical ports collection > browser (I can't wait until I finish my CS classes so I can help!). That > would be a very nice thing to show off to Windows users who brag about their > Windows Installer and "Add/Remove" garbage. What's wrong with pib? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message