From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 16 2:31:10 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 16 02:31:07 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from firefly.prairienet.org (firefly.prairienet.org [192.17.3.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD0837B402 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 02:31:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sherman.spotnet.org (slip-79.prairienet.org [192.17.3.99]) by firefly.prairienet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA11935; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 04:30:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 04:30:40 -0600 (CST) From: David Talkington X-Sender: To: Christopher Farley Cc: Daniel Stehm , Subject: Re: woohoo! FreeBSD here I come... with a question or 2 In-Reply-To: <20001215201431.B16571@northernbrewer.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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