From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 17:34:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9037137B401 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41704.mail.yahoo.com (web41704.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D14E43FD7 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from torquepanda@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030713003419.280.qmail@web41704.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.135.95.12] by web41704.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:34:19 PDT Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:34:19 -0700 (PDT) From: bob philituoy To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: i want to switch from windows to freebsd, please help me. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:34:20 -0000 i have used nothing but window OS's in my 16 year lifespan and am tired of it. right now i have a old sony vaio pcv-90 with win95 and a computer i built (1.8ghz P4 with windows xp pro soon to be dual booted with linux suse 8.1 pro) and wanted to find a version of unix i could try. i bought suse but am having alot of trouble installing it and have not been able to run it. one of my friends has freebsd 4.4 and says that he likes it more than anything else out there so he has gotten me interested in it now. What do you version do you recomend for me to get since i am a major noob and do you recomend any reading materials? I've been to http://store.yahoo.com/bsdmall/ and looked around, do you recomend them any? Any help will be very appreciated. Thank You --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!