Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 02:21:13 +0300 (EEST) From: Jukka Simila <juksi@iname.com> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: m l mack <mlmack@speakeasy.org>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Gail Pickett <gmpicket@icx.net> Subject: Re: newbies Message-ID: <XFMail.000418022113.juksi@iname.com> In-Reply-To: <020901bfa8c0$61498aa0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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On 17-Apr-00 Doug Young wrote: [snip] > people already familiar with some breed of unix .... manpages are generally > useless > ..... eg WTF are those lines of rubbish at the start for ??, and they > rarely if ever > provide ALL the info one needs I've found manpages very good source: I just use the search function very often, so I don't need to read all the stuff there is. [snip] > Printing appears to be another of the unbelievable weirdnesses endemic to > the > unixes ..... I've always believed that ghostscript was the most complicated > way > possible the geeks could devise of doing the job. I agree, I made my printer work as a line printer, and it printed PostScript as well (In fact I like ghostscript) but I neverever made it to print graphics, like gifs and such, not even mentioning in color. > Actually I never use FreeBSD > in GUI mode as I don't like the amateurish KDE I found recently this quite good-looking thingie, xfce. It is very light and doesn't core dump ever. Thou it isn't exactly what I want, I would vote it as a 'default FreeBSD X environment' , if just someone would make a default background and a list of default packages.. > ... I prefer Solaris / CDE > for anything but gateway use, and there is a quite nice printing application > for it (and also for FreeBSD as I recall) available from 'www.cups.org". > I've found the CUPS stuff quite straightforward to configure and its > certainly > light years ahead of that unintelligible ghostscript stuff :) > Well.. you would still need to use ghostscript with xfce.. :| @-`--,--`--- Jukka Simila To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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