From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 23:01:38 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 AEABC16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:01:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from out010.verizon.net (out010pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8F543D46 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:01:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrician@verizon.net) Received: from [192.168.0.4] ([4.11.107.45]) by out010.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040324070137.SXAB1910.out010.verizon.net@[192.168.0.4]>; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:01:37 -0600 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: <08CC14F8-7D61-11D8-99B6-000A95E8B36A@verizon.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Juan Pablo Gutierrez Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:01:12 -0800 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out010.verizon.net from [4.11.107.45] at Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:01:37 -0600 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 07:01:38 -0000 On Mar 23, 2004, at 7:52 PM, 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! I am now evangelizing FreeBSD to all my friends - > and I'm pushing it for a local non-profit organization as the solution > to their new found need for business work stations. I really look > forward to the day when FreeBSD with GNOME or KDE (or perhaps some > weird interhack of the two of them) is a common desktop environment. > > -- > ~*~* Jason Hi Jason, My experience is the exact opposite of yours: I've gone from FreeBSD to Mac (though I tinker on any OS I find, Linux, Windows, Menuet, etc). I'm curious if you've played with OpenDarwin at all. I've been meaning to install it, but haven't had the time, and the newest version runs on both PPC and x86. Anyway, I'm curious to see how OS X evolves. As it is now, running X11 on it is pretty weird. Where is XF86Config? or xf86config for that matter? The operating system is still very new and Macs are new to me, so I expect to figure things out eventually. BTW, what's with this GNOME and KDE stuff? Fluxbox forever!