From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 28 13:52:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07914 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 13:52:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07899 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 13:52:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from serv.net (dialup406.serv.net [207.207.70.7]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA16247 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 13:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 13:52:23 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: fewtch@serv.net From: Tim Gerchmez To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: No more on the topic of personal Emails, I promise... Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings to all, I won't be saying any more on this list on the topic of personal Emails. I've decided to go ahead and handle everything with filters. I have this powerful OS and mail reader at my disposal, and can use them to deal with the issue, instead of complaining about it to others. So, you've heard the last on the topic from me. Now why don't we focus back on BSD. I apologize for diverting the topic in here. That *was* a violation of list protocol, and I sincerely apologize for it. From now on, I'll focus my conversation on FreeBSD_newbie-related topics. Now, back to our regular scheduled programming, as far as I'm concerned. I've decided to give StarOffice a try and am downloading the package version at the moment (everyone should take a look at www.freebsd.org/ports - I was surprised to see that for just about every port, there's a package offered as well. For this reason, I no longer keep the ports collection on my machine. Why bother, if you can download a package instead? The only thing about it is, some of the packages are newer than the standard ones offered with 2.2.6, and require updated libraries as well that AREN'T part of the standard 2.2.6 packages. That can create dependency problems. Nice to have the newest programs, but often hard to find the newest libraries to go with them. FreeBSD may not be a mix and match OS, but the software that runs on it should be able to be mixed and matched (just like you can upgrade to Office 97 from Office 95 on Win95), if care is taken with dependencies. Tim ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez Date: 28-Jun-98 Time: 13:31:22 This message was sent by XFMail under Fvwm2 and FREEBSD. My personal website is at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html Take a look if you have the time - something for everyone there. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message