From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 2 19:39: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A396B151CA for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:38:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA27858; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:07:25 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA63628; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:07:25 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:07:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter McGarvey Cc: David Kudrav , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, kudra001@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: basic info on freebsd needed... Message-ID: <19990803120725.N62948@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Peter McGarvey on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 10:46:22AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 2 August 1999 at 10:46:22 +0100, Peter McGarvey wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am considering running freebsd and also considering openbsd, but have >> some questions. I am fairly familiar with AIX and Solaris, and slightly >> less familiar with Linux. I use AIX and/or Solaris almost daily, but only >> as a user and for limited applications. > > snippage... > > > I lookafter a Sun Server running the SPARC version of Solaris. I also got > the free Solaris so I could try it on a PC. SPARC Solaris runs fine on a > Dual 400MHz SPARC-II system. x86 Solaris ran like a dog on a P233. > > Never felt the need to look at OpenBSD... > > As for Linux/FreeBSD.... > > I've just setup a machine at home running DOS/Win98/FreeBSD 3.2/RedHat Linux > 6.0. IMHO FreeBSD is definately the better OS, and is much easier to > install. However, when it comes to setting up X, Linux is nicely setup by > default - with FreeBSD it takes a bit of effort but appears to be > faster. Interesting. What makes it easier? I have just set up a laptop with X and all that good stuff. I had no difficulty installing FreeBSD, but I haven't been successful in installing X on the Red Hat system, this despite that fact that it's the same XFree86 on both platforms, and that I think I understand it pretty well. Admittedly, I haven't spent days trying to install, but I don't think I should have to. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message