From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 22:54:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB2237B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:54:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA44495 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:18:03 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.1/8.10.0) id eA16sNW14696 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:54:23 +0300 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:54:23 +0300 From: Igor Roboul To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beginners with bsd Message-ID: <20001101095423.F10542@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000a01c043c3$942af1e0$1d24fc3e@knapp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from timcm@umich.edu on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:26:24AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:26:24AM -0500, Tim McMillen wrote: > Well, install it first. Maybe get a computer savvy friend to install it > for you. Or buy a system that has it already on it. Once it is installed > if you use one of the desktops like KDE or GNOME you should be ok If he had not used Windows, he does not need KDE or GNOME. They can look reasonable comfortable for Windows users, but for newscomer ? I think, that MacOS X is reasonable good advice, but he can feel comfortable even with command line :-) Easy of use, and easy for work IS NOT same as GUI :-) -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message