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Date:      Sat, 05 Dec 1998 18:22:41 +0200
From:      Jukka Similä <lmkjuksi@info1.info.tampere.fi>
To:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   My fbsd experiences
Message-ID:  <199812051622.SAA02106@info1.info.tampere.fi>

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Hi all

I've been around since june, but because of my cdrom drive I didn't use 
freebsd for 2-3 months.
Now I got "new" computer (166Mhz/64MB/4.3G+2*0.5G/6x)and I'm back to fbsd - 
after several weeks of parsing and praying..
I've got dualboot, with Nt 4.0 WS on first partition (1G) and fbsd 2.2.6 on 
second partition, 3G. It was interesting when I was installing these OS'es - 
NT didn't see fbsd's boot manager, and boot manager sees NTFS as HPFS . 
Windows 95 didn't like me at all, it destroyed my harddisk and I had to format 
it. I was so stupid that I didn't believe that win95 wouldn't install with 
fbsd AND NT, so I tried it several times - I wanted to have tripleboot but it 
seems to be very difficult to make it working with two (or more, I tested the 
good old ms-dos too) m$'s products. I also found out that even win NT 
isn't very stable, I got dial-up network working fine with it but it doesn't 
work anymore - and i haven't changed a thing. Well I don't really need it 
anymore, I got ppp working great from freebsd, and I haven't even booted to 
winNT for few weeks.

But I also had something to ask about:
I remember someone asked about StarOffice, and Sue told him/her to try some 
ports - which those ports/packages were?
Any other suggestions for good/powerful/nice/goodlooking/terrible 
textprocessing utilities are welcome

btw, 
does anyone know any url's to documents that describe programming in UNIX 
environment?
- I don't know how to compile my c program which uses gtk.. and that's a BIG 
problem.

Jukka Simila <lmkjuksi@info1.info.tampere.fi>




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