From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 24 18: 0:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B394C37B400 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:00:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from BAPhD.gihon.org.au (dialup-13.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.142]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g0P1xLw97201; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:29:22 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" , Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:29:51 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <0ffe01c1a371$661d1b20$6600640a@attbi.com> <02012419032304.01209@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> <20020124134552.F16D93F56@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020124134552.F16D93F56@i8k.babbleon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02012512295102.01099@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Friday 25 January 2002 00:15, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > I am NOT going to quote all that lot! :-) Thank you for an interesting and helpful response. Nice to know we are on the same side! WinDoze does probe for and assist in the setup of a modem. (It then screws up more often than enough, ..... yuk!) Linux probes for and assists in the setup of a modem, but doesn't screw up afterwards ... Yeh! ) The two efficient FreeBSD install methods are CDROM and network. Most of us newbies will be using CDROM, and immediately thereafter looking to use Internet access via modem and ISP. I am using Linux (RedHat 7.1) now, though I find that a bit hard because of my DOS expertise (hard to learn, when you also have to unlearn). My inclination is to use "real" Un*x ie FreeBSD rather than pseudo Minix/Un*x ie Linux, and that now is the time to switch - before I have TWO systems to unlearn! I havent tried uninstalling Xwrapper and reinstalling. Will have a go at that later. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message