From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 11 7: 7:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta03.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C26C37B418 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 07:07:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozemail.com.au ([63.60.254.151]) by mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20011111150725.TEZG12856.mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ozemail.com.au> for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:07:25 +1100 Message-ID: <3BEEA27F.C30FD33F@ozemail.com.au> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:08:31 +1000 From: James Buchanan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Software on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi For a little while I've been using Linux only, instead of Windows. I've been doing my Bach in computer science degree working on Windows, so unfortunately my skills in UNIX are a little rusty. I was wondering if FreeBSD has an installer program that can detect hardware. Also, does FreeBSD come with the tools that Linux distributions do, for example: GCC (C, C++, Java, Fortran), glibc, libstdc++, libpthreads, autoconf, automake, make, sed, awk, perl, bash, texinfo, lout, latex, ghostscript, ghostview, flex, bison, and other GNU tools? Is there an easy to use setup program for X? What desktops come with FreeBSD, like Gnome or KDE? I'm a little worried about changing OSes since UNIX especially seems to be pretty hard to use (I mean, for me non-logical names for things, like TTYs. An ancient UNIX hang over). Is FreeBSD at least as user-friendly as a good Linux distribution like RedHat? Does the manual in the boxed sets tell how to setup a modem and make a dialup connection to an ISP, and how to connect and disconnect? Lastly, since FreeBSD seems to be internet oriented, it has mail programs and a browser right? Oh, and emacs? Sorry for the very low level questions. But I really can't afford to spend the money until I know what I'm doing and I can work on FreeBSD. Thanks guys. :) James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message