Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:00:19 +0200 From: Steve Mazerski <smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze Message-ID: <200207270800.19935.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20020726195011.N18019-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020726195011.N18019-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Saturday 27 July 2002 02:06, Peter Leftwich wrote: (...) > Well at some point recently I ran `boot0cfg /dev/ad0s2` which wiped my = MBR > completely (I just wanted to boot straight into FreeBSD but still keep = the > DOS slice around as mountable). So now I'm on an old 8.4gb HD that I > booted to absolutely $FREE$ :) floppies and put 4.6 onto, however, XFre= e86 > 4.2.0 now suddenly works as does KDE and a very "krashy" Konqueror brow= ser > (sigh). Konquerer is nice but still not quite perfect, alas. Have you tried Mozilla or Opera? > Realizing that plugins are impossible (Flash), and the hassle of gettin= g > sound players working and my Canon scanner and webcam and PDF readers a= nd > *.DOC readers, I think I may be out of the FreeBSD workstation game. > > Finally going from UNIX user (since 1992) to sysadmin was a terrific > learning experience, but a "learning XP" seems more attractive for now > especially as XP is built on (sort of) NT and is 32bit and uses protect= ed > memory ... until FreeBSD is 34,523,455% more of an OUT-OF-THE-BOX-GUI O= S. > :( How about... Linux? (duck for cover). The main Linux distros are pretty g= ood at installing a working desktop right out of the box and have fairly usab= le configuration tools (i.e. not just vi) for various types of hardware. That still won't get you a 100% compatible .doc reader (there is no such thing, I believe...) but you do then have a nice UNIX-style environment which won't try and phone home ;-). FWIW I've just converted my desktop from Linux to FreeBSD, which was=20 quite painful (got stuck on a couple of hardware problems) but works a=20 dream :-). The only things I haven't got working are the sound card and a Flash plugin (but as I wouldn't shed a tear if I heard every Flash application has been abducted by space aliens and incarcerated on the Planet Qeeb, it doesn't bother me much ;-). Mind you I still have access to a Windows installation when=20 something (.doc files) really doesn't work=20 S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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