From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 20:44: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9218B37B400 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:44:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from jlboss (AUTH poptime) at wks-94-207-167.kscable.com (HELO there) (24.94.207.167) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2002 04:44:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Justin L. Boss" To: ken burk , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thank You Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:44:01 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <3C82E3C2.641464CF@midsouth.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3C82E3C2.641464CF@midsouth.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020304044402.9218B37B400@hub.freebsd.org> 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 First welcome. There is a step by step on setting up x in the hand book at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html It works good and if you run in to a problem let me know. Also take a look at KDE a nice GUI. On Sunday 03 March 2002 09:02 pm, ken burk wrote: > I just want to write a quick note here and say a big Thank You to all > the people who are developing and useing this wonderfull operating > system.I am a home user that spends at least 7 hours per day online and > am quite good at finding anything I want to download.I have run about > every os that M$ has ever put out includeing xp corporate pro and the > new .net enterprise server and the FreeBsd 4.5 I downloaded last > sunday/monday beats them all hands down.The responce is awesome as > windoze has never worked this fast or felt so stable.I like it so much > that I went to comp usa yesterday and bought the FreeBsd powerpack 4.4 > for 69 dollars.I'm still running the 4.5 I downloaded but the powerpack > came with 10 cd's and an 800 page book (why cant bill sell his that > cheap??xp pro is 299.00,has 1 cd and a booklet and is such a resourse > hog).I had never run any form of unix before and only knew the ls > command when I did the standard install but I quickly got onto the man > command and 2 nights later got it online with dhcp client,e-mail and > yahoo messenger setup.It's a whole new ballgame to me and im haveing to > much fun and with so many free apps,tools and updates to choose from I > will never go back to M$ agian for any reason.I just collected the warez > and os's off the web for something to do and never sold them but some of > you will be glad to know that you have made an honest man out of me as I > wont ever mess with them agian and thats a good feeling.Mabey I havent > found the right place on your website yet but I would like to see a > little more "hold my hand" help for newbies like me on the x-windows gui > as im haveing a very hard time finding out how to change my screen > resolution (cont,alt +,- wont do it) and installing the ports.Thank > goodness for alt mouse click to move the big window so I can see the > buttons at the bottom.I have been wearing google out the last few days > for imformation.If you guys made the probe just a little smarter and > booted new users to a gui with cd burning,modem setup and e-mail > wizards,etc.so it was an easy setup for dummies like me I really > believe you could sell it for a reasonable price and bring micro$oft to > its knees in about 1 year because FreeBsd is a superior product.I have > come a long way in a short time and will get mine but most americans > arent gonna take the time to do all the required reading so they will > stick with bill and have to live with all the bugs and security holes in > the bloted os's they have to upgrade for high dollar each year.Seems > like bill is putting out a new one every other day and you guys have > stuck to improveing this for the last 17 years.Good Job.When I get mine > down a little better I plan on spending a lot of time helping others and > converting everyone I know to a real os.Thanks agian, > > Ken Burk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message