From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 24 16:54:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DAD137B416 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:54:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 76776 invoked by uid 100); 25 Nov 2001 00:54:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15360.16721.989725.169416@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 18:54:41 -0600 To: "Philip Pereira" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Traditionalist Installation In-Reply-To: <58822972@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Philip Pereira types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C174DD.D6988A00 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hey Everyone! Hello Masoch! > Am a "newbie" (part of the forum too) and love FreeBSD. I've had it only = > 3 months, but can already re-compile my kernel (am please with myself). First suggestion - you tend to get better responses if you send one copy of the message as plain text, not one as plain text and one as HTML as you did. Worst of all is to send just the HTML, as many spam filters kick such out. > Just a quick question - I want to learn things the traditional way... > Where can I find some FreeBSD compatible applications and how can I > compile / install them on my system (avoiding the ports collection, > etc.) Well, you can always use google and sourceforge. I'd recommend using the ports collection as a database. I.e. - once you find the port, do "make fetch". The tarball will wind up in /usr/ports/distfiles. You can then untar it, try and figure out which file contains the build and install instructions, read through them and otherwise inflict pain on yourself in various ways. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message