From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 01:35:43 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 CE0C137B401 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 01:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from archimedes.rsn.bth.se (archimedes.rsn.bth.se [194.47.145.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD10E43FAF for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 01:35:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from defacto@home.se) Received: from jarl.home.se (as4-3-5.paa.hs.bonet.se [217.215.11.194]) by archimedes.rsn.bth.se (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3O984Yd021393 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:08:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from defacto@home.se) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030424102910.00bb62e8@archimedes.rsn.bth.se> X-Sender: jalle@archimedes.rsn.bth.se X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:35:43 +0200 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Jalle In-Reply-To: <0HDT00EKTWXHAT@net.WAU.NL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: Hello Newbs X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list 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 08:35:44 -0000 Aah! Mike, you're a hero! I've been thinking of doing what you have done for a long time, just to get something going on this list! Few months ago I switched from my dual boot- Win2k & FreeBSD- to plain FreeBSD, and I have still to see what Windows can do that FreeBSD can't. Apart from the device drivers that is... Hope to get more people into *BSD, it would be better for all of us! See ya! /Jalle At 05:41 2003-04-24 +0107, Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek wrote: >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 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"