From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 15 18:14:48 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 18:14:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (unknown [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6793737B402 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 18:14:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 72A4617436; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:14:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:14:32 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Daniel Stehm Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: woohoo! FreeBSD here I come... with a question or 2 Message-ID: <20001215201431.B16571@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Daniel Stehm , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <001301c066f6$2e3cd320$34d6fea9@silentchaos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001301c066f6$2e3cd320$34d6fea9@silentchaos>; from daniel.stehm@verizon.net on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:21:45PM -0500 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: chris@nbrewer.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Stehm (daniel.stehm@verizon.net) wrote: > BSD? 2) This weekend, I am deleting my Windows and Linux partition, and BSD > is going on the whooole hard drive.. all 8.4gigs :) lol. Just wondering if > there is anything anyone suggests before I take my step into a non-windows > person :) Thanks mucho for everyones continuous assistance with my many > questions. It took me about 6 months to be as productive in a FreeBSD desktop environment as in a Windows NT environment. That's probably because I never really went 'cold turkey' -- my Windows NT machine has always been a few keystrokes away on the KVM. But now, Windows seems completely claustrophobic, and with the exception of a few proprietary software packages, I don't use it much. Now I far prefer working on a 266mhz AMD K5 circa 1997 running FreeBSD, XFree86, Afterstep, Vim, Mutt and Mozilla to working on a 550mhz PIII running NT. (Okay, my FreeBSD box is due for an upgrade...) The advantages of completely free software and a completely free operating system are tremendous, especially if you run a business, or if you have ethical or legal concerns about software piracy. If you've never used a UNIX-like environment, you'll have a lot of reading ahead of you (the on-line Handbook is essential... also "UNIX Power Tools", "TCP/IP Network Administration" and "Essential System Administration" from O'Reilly are good books to get your feet wet). But you will learn a tremendous amount about computing and operating systems in general. And you may never go back. Congratulations on your very wise choice. -- Christopher Farley Northern Brewer / 1150 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105 www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message