From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 18 19:36:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.cableone.net (mail3.cableone.net [24.116.0.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F045137B400 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:36:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from 227-51.siocpe.cableone.net ([24.116.227.51]) by mail3.cableone.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:30:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:35:30 -0600 (CST) From: Lute Mullenix X-X-Sender: lute@agnes To: Scott Corey Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X problems as user In-Reply-To: <20020318214754.GA64761@bsdprophet.org> Message-ID: <20020318211743.M1782-100000@agnes> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org While I do have to agree that seeing the same question posted over and over again can get a little tiresome (for some anyway), but one thing that we need to keep in mind is that most people coming to FreeBSD are not coming from any sort of "UN*X" background. They are from Windows, where user setup of OS is not only difficult, but discouraged. I come from a "UN*X" history, my very first real OS was OS-9 running on a Motorola 6809 processor, then onto OS-9 68000 running on a FHL Euro-Quad 20. This was proprietary software running on expensive hardware, but I wanted to run UNIX so that's what I ran. These systems had the "Windowing" systems set up for you. When I bumped into Linux was the first time I ever had to deal with X, and I was able to get X 4.1.0 working there with some effort, but when I moved to FreeBSD, I asked the same question because even though I had 4.1.0 running as a normal user under Linux, I had never heard of wrapper. So when we see questions about X, modems setups and what not, let's please keep in mind that most of these people are dealing with a whole new concept here. Now I can get most of what I done by reading the doc, BUT I now know how to read the docs. Lute Triple Boot: FreeBSD 4.5 Release Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Windows ME (Hey, it came with the system) On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Scott Corey wrote: > I sure would like people to do SOME work before asking a question. > Right from the FAQ: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XFREE86-ROOT > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message