Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:56:17 -0800 From: "John" <podgod@earthlink.net> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Definitely a newbie... Message-ID: <000701be703a$e20d7760$ebb2bfa8@johnmiwa>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE6FF7.D1A7E880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I currently have a PII 266 with Win95 and Solaris 2.6. Solaris is not = quite what I expected and would like to switch to freeBSD to learn more = about Unix. I have three questions: 1.) How do I get rid of the Sun boot manager that comes up every time I = turn on the machine? 2.) Will freeBSD run all the popular software that Linux runs? = Netscape, WordPerfect, and the like? I say linux because most of the = software is cheap! 3.) Is freeBSD a good flavor of Unix for a new computer science student = to use on a home computer to learn about Unix and networking? I don't know, maybe these questions are in someones FAQ but I have not = found them? Thank you for any help you can offer...John. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE6FF7.D1A7E880 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000>I currently have a PII 266 with Win95 and = Solaris=20 2.6. Solaris is not quite what I expected and would like to switch = to=20 freeBSD to learn more about Unix. I have three = questions:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000>1.) How do I get rid of the Sun boot = manager that=20 comes up every time I turn on the machine?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000>2.) Will freeBSD run all the popular = software=20 that Linux runs? Netscape, WordPerfect, and the like? I say = linux=20 because most of the software is cheap!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000>3.) Is freeBSD a good flavor of Unix = for a new=20 computer science student to use on a home computer to learn about Unix = and=20 networking?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000>I don't know, maybe these questions are in = someones FAQ=20 but I have not found them? Thank you for any help you can=20 offer...John.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE6FF7.D1A7E880-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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