Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 10:37:04 -0400 From: "Lloyd, John" <jlloyd@wpb.nuwc.navy.mil> To: "'pineypl@bellsouth.net'" <pineypl@bellsouth.net> Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: South Florida Newbies Message-ID: <E3A9EA12158ED111A9FD00E02915477FC1EF80@asdexch.wpb.nuwc.navy.mil>
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>Are there any others on the list? I am in the Palm Beach County area. >Just curious. Depends upon how loosely one defines "South Florida", I suppose. I kinda-sorta semi-officially live in West Palm because the outfit I more-or-less work for is headquartered there. However, my current physical residence is actually in the Bahamas (Andros Island, near enough). I've just installed FreeBSD for the first time, dual-booting with W98 on a homebuilt Vegetron-, uh, Celeron-based machine that I had originally configured for BeOS. (I'm one of those masochists who enjoy mucking around with multiple OSes; it's a little like playing Myst, except one might actually succeed in killing something. Like a monitor, for instance. ;) Although the FreeBSD installation process seemed to have gone smoothly enough at first, it now looks as if there will be a bit of a learning curve involved. Will comment further after I figure out how to get XFree86 working with my window manager(s) of choice (the default--twm, IIRC--is astoundingly lame). Will comment /much/ further after I figure out how to actually install software from the 4.0 CD-ROMs. (In this case, RTFM didn't do much good.) Comments at truly annoying length will have to wait a while, as I'm taking off this week for a month's vacation and the FreeBSD box isn't coming with me. Cheers, -- John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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