From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 22:18:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D295837B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:18:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4017 invoked by uid 0); 1 Nov 2000 06:18:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ghostinyou) (195.229.53.57) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 1 Nov 2000 06:18:36 -0000 Message-ID: <002201c043cc$ba179170$0204010a@atg.altayer.com> From: "Rino Mardo" To: , "John Summerfield" References: <200011010546.eA15kIW29672@emu.os2.ami.com.au> Subject: Re: beginners with bsd Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:19:40 +0400 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I concur. FreeBSD is not for the faint of heart. You might want to try Storm Linux or SuSe 7 which are far, far better than RedHat or Mandrake. -> who watches the watchmen? Key fingerprint - E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B069 0883 ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Summerfield" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:48 AM Subject: Re: beginners with bsd > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C043C3.80227740 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > Help, please! > > > > As a newcomer to any kind of computing, and as one who'd like to get = > > away from Windows, what is the easiest way to start with Freebsd? > > > > I've tried to trace a plain English book on the subject without success. > > > > Is Freebsd suitable for beginners? Could I run the normal = > > wordprocessing, database, and spreadsheet applications with it? > > It would be interesting to see you try it;-) > > I've given it a quick trial; my plan was to build a small server based on it. > > My feeling is that it's not a good choice for beginners; if you want to get > away from broken windows, I think you will find a major Linux distribution > more to your liking. > > I use Red Hat linux; Red Hat 7.0 was released 2-3 weeks ago, and Mandrake 7.2 > about one week ago. > > If you chose one of those, you should find it installs easily, and if you get > anything more than the most basic package, it will have StarOffice for word > processing etc. And probably Koffice too. > > > I think you will find hardware support on Linux better too. For example, I > have a M/b with UMDA/66 interfaces. Linux recognises that, but FreeBSD thinks > they're UDMA/33. > > I saw a report of someone who installed Mandrake 7.1 (just superceded) and > Windows ME on the same system. Said Mandrake went better. > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > Tony Knapp (membership no 20001001) > > > > ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C043C3.80227740 > > Content-Type: text/html; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > > > > > > > > > >

Help, please!

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I've tried to trace a plain English = > > book on the=20 > > subject without success.

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Is Freebsd suitable for = > > beginners? Could I=20 > > run the normal wordprocessing, database, and spreadsheet applications = > > with=20 > > it?

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Thanks,

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Tony Knapp (membership no=20 > > 20001001)

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