From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 0:16:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674F737C03A for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:16:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e6R7GKn20529; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:16:24 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <856532CB07BED3118FE300204840E28A01107622@vexwncc02.hurlburt.af.mil> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:16:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil Subject: RE: frree bsd Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hamellr@aracnet.com, guest@cnu.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Jul-00 Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil wrote: > Allow me to add to Rick's comment... yes! > > I installed 4.0 Stable with no Unix experience. I was a Windoze / DOS > user > and more recently IBM's OS/2 Warp ver 4. I also have experience with > (Intel) computer hardware (building and upgrading machines). > Rick is right about the steep learning curve in the beginning. I suggest > the following: Coming from the same background finishing with OS/2 myself I must recommend icewm and dfm from the ports. It is somewhat like the OS/2 object oriented desktop. /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message