From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 6 8:20:26 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 08:20:25 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8057F37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 08:20:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13860; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 11:18:05 -0500 (EST) Sender: wmoran@clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com Message-ID: <3A5744DE.1CF72561@mail.iowna.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 11:16:30 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edward Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: General questions (was Help ME !!!) References: <99081315570300.03546@mainhost.ed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please correct the date and time on your system. Edward wrote: > 1. How I can(if I can) extract packages from other systems, for > example from *.deb, *.rpm (Debian Linux or Red Hat Linux packages) ??? There's a port for an rpm extractor somewhere. First, you should check to see if there's a native FreeBSD version of the software you want. Read the docs on ports, packages and linux compatibility. > 5. Whe I using dial-up connection in console I begin seeing "silo > overflow"... What does it mean ? According to "man sio" it means an interrupt problem with your serial port. > 6. What system do you use (I am sure FreeBDS), what GUI(GNOME, KDE), > in a word tell me more about useful programs (I think you are using best > programs :-) )... One more, what mail reader and what internet > browser are you using??? Personally, I use Netscape for both mail & Internet. I like Mozilla better but it's too slow on this 150Mhz. I've heard that Netscape mangles mail but I haven't found anything better yet and nobody has complained directly to me so I'm assuming it's not that bad. Just make sure you've got Netscape mail configured not to use HTML. For GUI I simply use Enlightenment. Gnome & KDE don't do anything for me in particular, and they use tons of memory. I use tons of other programs, but I don't know what else would interest you. This is all on a FreeBSD 4.2 machine that I update to -STABLE about once a month. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message