From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 11 7:16: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E57D37B426 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 07:16:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22517 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Nov 2001 15:16:00 -0000 From: "Alson van der Meulen" Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:15:59 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011111161559.A28312@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3BEEA27F.C30FD33F@ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BEEA27F.C30FD33F@ozemail.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i 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 On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:08:31AM +1000, James Buchanan wrote: > 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. Not really a detection like windows does, but the kernel configures most hardware (e.g. NICs, sound, etc) automatically as long as it's pci. For some isa hardware, you might have to specify IO/IRQ > 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? http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ glibc is not used, freebsd uses it's own libc instead. > > 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). It's only a bit different, not hard to use IMHO. (e.g. ttyv0-ttyvb instead of tty1-tty12) > > Is FreeBSD at least as user-friendly as a good Linux distribution like RedHat? More user-friendly as soon as you're used to it ;) > 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? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/index.html > > Lastly, since FreeBSD seems to be internet oriented, it has mail programs and a > browser right? Oh, and emacs? > Sure, look in the ports collection again. > 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. look at http://www.freebsd.org and the URLs mentioned above for more info. HTH, Alson -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: alson@flutnet.org < > School: alson@gymnasiumleiden.nl < `-------------------------------------------' Hmm, maybe if I do this... --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message