Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:21:17 +0200 From: Stefan KORONKA <KoronkaS@interscope.ro> To: 'Brian and Myrna' <bryhartline@hotmail.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: New to Unix Message-ID: <D08F9E2FE307D411857300104B34F1A202DAA9@URANUS>
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> I am sure that you get a lot of these types of questions so here goes. I am > completely new to Unix. I downloaded your software and had no trouble > installing it. My question is, now that I have this stuff installed what do I > do with it? In other words I realize that the free bsd will act as a firewall > but other than that I don't know what to do with it. I have been looking at > your manual a little bit but am not very confident in myself in regards to this > type of stuff. I know this is very broad but do you get where I'am going? > Please respond to mailto:bryhartline@hotmail.com > PS.. > This was extremely easy to install, it basically took care of itself and one > other question. I went to two different sites to check my security after I > installed this. The first site said my security wasd poor. It was able to open > up my C drive, it was at http://www.robrob8.com/online_security.htm. this site is a crap. take a look at the page http://www.robrob8.com/online_security2.htm : <META http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=file:///C:/"> <title>YOUR SECURITY SYSTEM HAS FAILED! ACCESS HAS BEEN GRANTED</title> This has NOTHING to do with security: it just open the local C: disk .. which can be opened by any browser, WITHOUT any securiy issues. Just open a browser, and type this in the adress box: "file:///C:/" (or "file:///home/" or something like that). > The second > one gave me a great report and stated that my security was very good and it was > at http://grc.com/. That one looks good. You can base on it, for general security-testing (still more work can be done). > Any suggestions? I am eager to learn a little more about > the Unix environment! First, make your point: what exactly do you expect from a copmuter? Network server (web, mail, firewall, file, printing, etc) ?! Then FreeBSD is the answer for you ! Multimedia computer ?! more work can be done in this direction; FreeBSD can play your cds/mp3s/etc, but won't handle DVDs (copyrighted-format issues) (please correct me if otherwise) Also, support for some tv cards exist. Graphic work ?! yes, you can use gimp and another few programs; Gameing ?! hmm .. there are some linux games (see loki.com) which will run whitout major problems on FreeBSD, but if you want only this from a computer, I'll suggest to stay with windoze. Text editing/processing ?! there is (la)tex - or if you wanna wysiwyg editor, try staroffice or corel word. C/C++/Perl/other programming ?! yes, FreeBSD is for you ! Wanna learn how a computer works ? want to learn something strong ? want to learn what UNIX means ? then try FreeBSD ! > Thank you very much! Youre welcome. Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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