From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Apr 25 09:33:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13033 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 09:33:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (root@gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12949 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 09:33:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de) Received: from duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de (surf88.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.88]) by gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA18912; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 18:33:17 +0200 Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 18:21:01 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: KDE To: "Maximiliano A. Eschoyez" cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980425152512194.AAA218.270@webmail> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.42] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat 25 Apr, Maximiliano A. Eschoyez wrote: > * Why people under UNIX-like OS try to emulate a MS 'Operative > System' * To try to make even the dumbest Windiot aware of UNIX and its possibilities, to persuade these "point-an-click"-people, who'd normaly refuse to enter a command in a DOS-shell (horrible though that anyway...) into actually looking at Unix as an option, not an alternative. From reading various letters-to-the-editor in Unix-aware computer magazines here, I'd say that ATM IBM loses a great share of private OS/2 users to Linux/KDE (perhaps more than to NT) - for the simple fact that there is more and often better software available for less (mostly ZERO) money. OK, there's StarOffice even for OS/2, but GIMP ? > You know, I'm a newbie because I've been istalling Free-BSD > since 15th of April (my PC only boots, that's a good goal). The beginning is always slow. But why hurry ? Better understand all what you do slowly-but-safely than just going mad with the ports-collection and install a lot of useless stuff (useless for you, not generally useless, of course) > It's very hard to move from DOS to UNIX-like OS with only one book > (The Complete Free-BSD). Nemeth, Snyder, Sebas, Hein: Unix System Administration, ****2nd edition**** Prentice Hall Also available in a German edition (though they messed up some of the jokes...) > I'm doing a hard work, because I'm studying Free-BSD alone, but Herearound, even unix-aware people haven't even heard of FreeBSD. Sad but true - but market-presence (or maket-awareness) was never a sign for quality or a personal goal of mine. I want to have the best thing for the job. And for almost anything TCP/IP-related, FreeBSD is the best, even though the amount of money thrown towards Linux is orders of magnitudes larger. > it's interesting 'cause I want to learn about networks (for my > career) and always UNIXs are the most estable System for that. HeHe. Almost all modern TCP/IP implemtations (WIN-Sockets etc) are based on the same BSD-4.4 sources that come with FreeBSD. Guess what: What runs best, the original or the Windoze-port ! ? I wonder anyway; all these South-American countries that are cronically 'broke' would be 10000 times better served (pun intended) buy moving large parts of their IT-infrastructure to FreeBSD/Linux. How can your University afford all these NT/Win95 licenses, how can it afford the 24-months HW-upgrades ? OK, so you couldn't 'teach' M$-Visual Studio, but who exactly needs Visual Studio to compile the general "HelloWorld" C-proggies of first-level CS ? cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message