From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 13 8:53:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from sunburst.csfi.com (sunburst.csfi.com [204.1.38.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E5137B5DC; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:53:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yong@csfi.com) Received: from yongdell (pc_yong [204.1.38.26]) by sunburst.csfi.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id LAA15393; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:53:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Yong Lim" To: "'FreeBSD Newbies'" Cc: Subject: ranting Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:54:35 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: <38E947B2.DD87C47B@home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I must be reading too much /. to think I should have an opinion on an OS. I don't think paying a subscription to the CD's would qualify either. I guess just take this as what it is a grain of salt. Not that I am that new to Unix system. As with most everyone else these days my day job is writing c codes on NCR Unix, Unixware, AIX and Solaris (install this os on PC partition...sweet install). That still does not qualify me as anything other then a newbies here. Now on to my ranting...what's with the Backspace key? Running vi from xterm will not function the same as running vi from rxvt. Okay, a problem so I sent out an email. I am grateful for each an every responses and someone suggests that I look at terminfo. Has anyone look at that file? It is scary to pull that thing up. Second thing to do search the web for answer. Someone on the web did have two wonderful and descriptive description of the problem for Linux. It has a wonderful history of the original problem where it started during the punch card period. Now the last update to this web page was Sunday, February 27, 2000 17:29:48. How many years now? And no one think to solve this problem or choices? As most people might know BSD has as good and long history in it, that's probably why a similar article on how to solve this problem will come up shortly since BSD might not goes to the punch card period. The hippies started a bite later. Second ranting...I don't like MS. And FreeBSD and Lunix will take over MS one day. But has anybody read the manual lately? Before installing be sure to run Control Panel and notes all the IRQ's for the devices, the manual would read. Does anyone not see the problem here? This would mean that there's an existing running Window already. Forgive the soul who wrote the IRQ wrong and install his brand new os over Windows. Assuming the OS install went well and you need to have ppp going. Well, you don't have the sio map to the correct IRQ. Well, you need to rebuild the kernel. There are good articles and instruction on the web for doing this. I guess I should have known since a article by that gerbils loving guy an titled "FreeBSD for the SVR4/Linux Administrator" dealt exclusively with rebuilding the kernel. If I don't know what a gerbil is I should cancel my subscription. Well, I do have a Quadra 800 with 8 Meg of Ram and 500 Meg filling to the brim and it still works. May be aught to check out Apple again, I heard that they are developing a sweet, you can lick it OS. I must be see things as underneath that smiling Mac screen there's that three characters again BSD. Those damn hippies they are getting to everything now. Yong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message