From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 19:01:22 2004 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 3108416A4CF for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:01:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D3243D45 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin_stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from [192.168.168.101] (fffinch [192.168.168.101]) by pursued-with.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABA3C9C16; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:01:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <406105FF.50605@cs.uiowa.edu> References: <406105FF.50605@cs.uiowa.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <9E87470C-7D3F-11D8-B3FB-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kevin Stevens Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:02:00 -0800 To: jdusek@cs.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tastes Like Chicken 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: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 03:01:22 -0000 On Mar 23, 2004, at 19:52, Jason Dusek wrote: > I'll guess I'll add to the Hoopla. I'm a former Mac user, who was > always deeply curious about the workings of his machine. I have to > say that I have yet to find in any other operating system the unique > combination of instructional challenges and raw functionality that is > offered by FreeBSD! ?? How is it any different than just running OS X in those regards? You can run KDE/Gnome on X if you really want to. KeS