From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 19:12:58 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 690C016A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:12:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from serv01.divms.uiowa.edu (serv01.divms.uiowa.edu [128.255.44.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D7043D2D for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:12:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdusek@cs.uiowa.edu) Received: from cs.uiowa.edu ([128.255.35.99]) by serv01.divms.uiowa.edu with id i2O3Cubu022218 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:12:57 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <40610AC8.8030805@cs.uiowa.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:12:56 -0600 From: Jason Dusek Organization: University of Iowa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040323 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.901 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.37 Subject: Re: Tastes Like Chicken X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jdusek@cs.uiowa.edu 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 03:12:58 -0000 Kevin Stevens wrote: > > 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 > You really can't run GNOME on OS X - it's more like you can run them next to each other. And there aren't nearly as many functional ports. And you don't have to set your IP address on a Macintosh. I mentioned the unique *combination* of fuctionality and instructional challenges. -- ~*~* Jason