From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 4 1:20:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C55115340 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:20:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA04756; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:48:58 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id RAA68904; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:48:57 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:48:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dutch Collins Cc: Peter McGarvey , David Kudrav , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, kudra001@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: basic info on freebsd needed... Message-ID: <19990804174856.J62948@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990803120725.N62948@freebie.lemis.com> <37A79EAA.49C4D47B@charm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37A79EAA.49C4D47B@charm.net>; from Dutch Collins on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:00:10PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 22:00:10 -0400, Dutch Collins wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Monday, 2 August 1999 at 10:46:22 +0100, Peter McGarvey wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am considering running freebsd and also considering openbsd, but have >>>> some questions. I am fairly familiar with AIX and Solaris, and slightly >>>> less familiar with Linux. I use AIX and/or Solaris almost daily, but only >>>> as a user and for limited applications. >>> >>> snippage... >>> >>> >>> I lookafter a Sun Server running the SPARC version of Solaris. I also got >>> the free Solaris so I could try it on a PC. SPARC Solaris runs fine on a >>> Dual 400MHz SPARC-II system. x86 Solaris ran like a dog on a P233. >>> >>> Never felt the need to look at OpenBSD... >>> >>> As for Linux/FreeBSD.... >>> >>> I've just setup a machine at home running DOS/Win98/FreeBSD 3.2/RedHat Linux >>> 6.0. IMHO FreeBSD is definately the better OS, and is much easier to >>> install. However, when it comes to setting up X, Linux is nicely setup by >>> default - with FreeBSD it takes a bit of effort but appears to be >>> faster. >> >> Interesting. What makes it easier? >> >> I have just set up a laptop with X and all that good stuff. I had no >> difficulty installing FreeBSD, but I haven't been successful in >> installing X on the Red Hat system, this despite that fact that it's >> the same XFree86 on both platforms, and that I think I understand it >> pretty well. Admittedly, I haven't spent days trying to install, but >> I don't think I should have to. > > Does this mean that when I install Red Hat 5.2 (on CD) and XFree86 I will > have nothing but problems. No. It could be smooth as silk. A lot depends on your hardware, like it does with FreeBSD. > I am running netscape and X (this msg) on FreeBSD with only a > strange Netscape crash to figure out. Easy stuff kill -9 to remove > netscape. So, if I have this little problem now .... netscape is a pain. Probably the most unreliable program I use. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message