From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 20:41:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B82437B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from net.wau.nl (NET.WAU.NL [137.224.10.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8549843FB1 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from FST777@phreaker.net) Received: from asser079.athome239.wau.nl (asser079.athome239.wau.nl [137.224.239.79]) by net.WAU.NL (PMDF V5.2-32 #38746) with ESMTP id <0HDT00EKSWXHAT@net.WAU.NL> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:41:42 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:41:18 +0107 (CEST) From: "Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-id: <0HDT00EKTWXHAT@net.WAU.NL> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Spruce 0.6.5 for X11 w/smtpio 0.7.9 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Hello Newbs X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: FST777@phreaker.net List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 03:41:45 -0000 Hey Mike, welcome on the list here! I see you've got a lot of good comments on your problem there, so... nothing to add :) I'm using FreeBSD for a few months now, tried unsuccesfully a few Linux-distro before that (I managed to get VectorLinux working, but it was too slow for me :) ). I've tried OpenBSD and NetBSD also, but the amount of packages got me back to FreeBSD and the next thing I did is removing Window$. Haven't missed it yet :) The only thing I miss is my scanner, I do not get it to work (tried using Sane, but I guess my scanner is too old...). Not that I need my scanner that much, so... Tried to ask it on freebsd-questions but got no response :( Hope you continue liking FreeBSD, at least I will :) On Wednesday 23 April 2003 07:07 pm, Mike wrote: > I havn't seen any traffic on this list since I signed up for it so I > thought I would send a message in a bottle and see what comes back.I > have been using FreeBSD for a couple weeks and I really like it.I was > using Linux before so it was not much of a shock making the > switch.Actually I still have linux on another partition.I havn't booted > it in a while though.The only thing I havn't got working yet is my usb > quickcam express.I am using cvsup to update my sources and portupgrade > to compile the programs I am using.Last night I ran make world for the > first time.It was pretty cool. > > Mike