From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 7:23: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotlps.cccs.cccoes.edu (hotlps.cccs.cccoes.edu [164.47.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CE737B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 07:23:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from potter.cccs.cccoes.edu (potter.cccs.cccoes.edu [164.47.3.10]) by cccs.cccoes.edu (PMDF V6.0-23 #46001) with ESMTP id <01JVWIGTQ1TC99DJCB@cccs.cccoes.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:22:54 -0600 (MDT) Received: by potter.cccs.cccoes.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 17:36:46 -0600 Received: from hmp (ts004d48.lon-co.concentric.net [207.155.172.204]) by potter.cccs.cccoes.edu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id Q9ZY9J9G; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 17:36:34 -0600 Content-return: allowed Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 17:40:58 -0600 From: Phil Helms Subject: Re: Satisfied w/ your desktop? In-reply-to: <20001028193159.2134.qmail@hades.hell.gr> To: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mark.rowlands@minmail.net Reply-To: Phil.Helms@cccs.cccoes.edu Message-id: <200010281740580260.00EC785F@potter.cccs.cccoes.edu> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.10.03.02 (3) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <20001028193159.2134.qmail@hades.hell.gr> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Learning FreeBSD isn't the only reason to use it. Another is stability. I've never used Gnome, but have used KDE, and I like it a lot. It's actually like a super-Windows. Maybe I need to try Gnome, too, though. I would like to learn FreeBSD, but if the FreeBSD vehicle is to be suitable for more than just use by mechanics, it needs to take care of the everyday driver. I see FreeBSD as a better Windows alternative than Linux, though FreeBSD is, I believe, where Linux was a couple of years ago, in the areas of ease of use and application software availability. Actually, for security, I like OpenBSD even more, but OpenBSD seems to have weaker support than FreeBSD, so FreeBSD would be my open-source operating system of choice if I were setting up an IT site from scratch. -- Phil Helms prh99@netzero.net philhelms@usa.net For-Pay Internet Distributed Processing... http://www.ProcessTree.com/?sponsor=33534 Donated Internet Distributed Processing... http://www.DCypher.Net/ *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 10/28/2000 at 7:31 PM Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >When a user that comes from Windows or similar environments asks me, KDE >is what I recommend too. But I also take care to note that if what they >want is not to 'learn the way FreeBSD works, but make it more and more >like what their Windows used to be', that they might as well stick with >Windows, if that suits their needs/desires better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message