Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 04:30:40 -0600 (CST) From: David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: Daniel Stehm <daniel.stehm@verizon.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: woohoo! FreeBSD here I come... with a question or 2 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0012160421210.2138-100000@sherman.spotnet.org> In-Reply-To: <20001215201431.B16571@northernbrewer.com>
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>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...) Nah. Freedom from Winbloat also means freedom from the tyranny of mHz. Most of what I do is write, and nothing I ever did *required* a PII ... except Windows! Heck, the only reason for a graphic interface at all is to allow me space for a dozen terminals. =) >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. Yes, and do make sure you have Greg's "Complete FreeBSD" (which is where I would start). It does a great job of explaining things in plain language. -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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