From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 21 7:37:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from asdexch.wpb.nuwc.navy.mil (ASDEXCH.WPB.NUWC.NAVY.MIL [198.97.84.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F3437B744 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 07:37:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlloyd@wpb.nuwc.navy.mil) Received: by asdexch.wpb.nuwc.navy.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Sun, 21 May 2000 10:37:12 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Lloyd, John" To: "'pineypl@bellsouth.net'" Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: South Florida Newbies Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 10:37:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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