Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:14:26 +0100 From: "Nora Schram (Planet)" <nora.schram@planet.nl> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: First impressions of freebsd 4.5 Message-ID: <005e01c1b611$f1126b60$0300a8c0@cb03>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello all, This is my first posting in this group. I appreciate Tim's "ranting" as there was so much valuable information in the reactions! I want to tell (only once) how grateful I am for all the help offered in this group. Some weeks ago I put FreeBSD on an old PC and I was impressed with the ease of installation. A typical Windows installation took more time. To be honest, I just installed the base system and Samba, because we need that in our business to get rid of our old Novell server. Now I'm happily Samba-ing and Telnetting and I love it. Now my questions: 1. I have a lot of experience with DOS C application development (Raima Data Manager and C-Scape windowing library). After experimenting with Delphi and VBasic I definitely decided I do NOT want to program for Windows. So, if anybody can just put me on the right track to a good database system and a development system it would help me very much. 2. My test server just has 1Mb of disk and 32 Mb memory and P233, I suppose this is not enough to set up X-windows comfortably. Any suggestions? Upgrade the server, get another machine? nora.schram@planet.nl [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is my first posting in this group. I appreciate Tim's "ranting" as there was so much valuable information in the reactions! I want to tell (only once) how grateful I am for all the help offered in this group.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some weeks ago I put FreeBSD on an old PC and I was impressed with the ease of installation. A typical Windows installation took more time. To be honest, I just installed the base system and Samba, because we need that in our business to get rid of our old Novell server. Now I'm happily Samba-ing and Telnetting and I love it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now my questions:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. I have a lot of experience with DOS C application development (Raima Data Manager and C-Scape windowing library). After experimenting with Delphi and VBasic I definitely decided I do NOT want to program for Windows. So, if anybody can just put me on the right track to a good database system and a development system it would help me very much.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. My test server just has 1Mb of disk and 32 Mb memory and P233, I suppose this is not enough to set up X-windows comfortably. Any suggestions? Upgrade the server, get another machine?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="mailto:nora.schram@planet.nl">nora.schram@planet.nl</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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