Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:45:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E1rcio_David?= <marciofdavid@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: FreeBSD ? What kind of OS is that ? Message-ID: <XFMail.010625084501.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <000201c0fa93$1c2076c0$0e00000a@tomcat>
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A few random points of no particular importance... First, if you really do hate the login prompt so badly then you might stop reading here. On 21-Jun-01 Andrew C. Hornback wrote: > Okay, first off, do NOT send HTMLized e-mail to the list. That's extremely > bad form and it's generally enough to get you shot on sight (with a water > gun, rubber band or can of silly string). > True, very true. > Second of all, from your original message (which I missed), since you do > not like the idea of a login prompt and have had such trouble with Linux in > the past... I doubt that you would be ready for the world of FreeBSD. Linux > makes a good starting point in the world of OpenSource Unices... but once > you get over the cuteness of Tux and the idea that you're doing something > "elite", FreeBSD is where you would come to actually discover what a great > operating system is. I installed FreeBSD for the fun of it. At the time I did not know that it was unixlike even. Just another thing to try. It took me a while to acquaint me with it but I find it immensly more easy to grasp than Linux. I have made two installs of linux in the past, none of them came out right. And even when it is installed OK, I can't really find my way around in the system. I really think FreeBSD has a simpler layout. I would only recommend Linux to someone who definately NEEDS it. You can't run Quake 3 Arena on FreeBSD:( > Thirdly, as far as graphical interfaces go, you don't have to use one. In > fact, you can get rid of XFree and go on about your business in command line > mode without a problem. But, given that you've been working with nothing > but GUI-type OSes, I doubt you'd survive very long in a command line driven > atmosphere. > Do try to learn using the command line! It is so much more powerful. I sure does not look as cool as a GUI but you really can do wonders with it. I use XFree all the time but mostly just to be able to have several (tens of'em) shells open at the same time. > Fourth, if you're just looking for an OS to install and play with just to > say that you have experience with it, you're going about it all wrong. Go > to your search engine of choice and have fun running searches. I'm sure > there are a few more out there than you've been able to uncover. > > My fifth comment is that I have OS/2 on one of my machines, and I use it on > occasion. (And no, you may NOT have a copy of it!). OS/2 is slowly moving > into the category of the legacy OS, as everyone and their dog has bought > into the Microsoft marketing machine's thinking that you simply cannot have > a company that works and runs properly without having at least some sort of > Microsoft product involved. Are you sure that you like OS/2 without ever > having used it? This makes me wonder... > When I stopped using OS/2 (in favour of FreeBSD) the only thing I really missed was the Workplace Shell. It is the smoothest GUI I have ever seen. I really, really, REALLY wish someone would try to make a clone of it for FreeBSD. In the mean time I will stick to icewm for an OS/2 look. > Maybe it's my interpretation of your English (which I'm sure is better than > my attempts at communicating in your native tongue would be), but if you're > not wanting to install or use a Unix-like OS (which would be the > classification that FreeBSD falls under), why are you here? Additionally, > if you're always going to "go back to Windows", why should you even try > something that would be different? If you were satisfied with how Windows > performed on your hardware, you wouldn't be looking elsewhere, or so I would > be inclined to believe. > > Finally, if you really do love to program in BASIC, as you comment, might I > recommend something along the lines of a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 or a > Timex/Sinclair 1000? Those would be much more up your alley than a full > blown PC. ZX Spectrum rulez! /M ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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