From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 14 11:06:42 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 4821237B404 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao05.cox.net (lakemtao05.cox.net [68.1.17.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B5143FBF for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 11:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesuscash@cox.net) Received: from cox.net ([68.13.157.151]) by lakemtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030514180641.JMAC28938.lakemtao05.cox.net@cox.net> for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 14:06:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3EC285B2.3000305@cox.net> Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 13:06:42 -0500 From: Jesus Cash User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ko, de, de-at, de-de, de-li, de-lu, de-ch, el, he, ga, ja, ko-kp, ko-kr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20030514152545.21062.qmail@web40402.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030514152545.21062.qmail@web40402.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Yahoo!!! 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: Wed, 14 May 2003 18:06:42 -0000 Mandrake was my Linux as choice as well. I totally see what you mean. These major distros are getting to be just like MS. Proprietary and bloated. I've mentioned this before, but I tried install Red Hat 9 on my dinky laptop, thinking I could just strip it down to basics. Nope, just said your computer is crap and can't install Red Hat 9. Once I can get some working floppies (mine all crapped out when I carried them unprotected in my laptop bag) I'll install FreeBSD on it. Maybe I'll try my hand at loading OS/2 (I'm a little worried about trying to run XFree86 or any desktop on it). -B RexFelis wrote: >Here's another example why I use FreeBSD now... > >Why does it have to be such a hassle for me to >install a single program that I need under Linux? > I was trying to make custom recorded audio CDs >(not music CDs), like I used to in Win98 using >Voyetra's software. I looked around and found >Audacity. It looked good... but Linux Mandrake >made me crazy with dependencies. FreeBSD just >downloaded and installed them. 3.5 days of >frustration in Linux, 35 minutes of surfing the >web while the program was downloaded, patched, >custom compiled and installed on FreeBSD. > >Linux seems to be heading in a couple of >directions I disagree with. Dependency hell >whenever you try to do what YOU want to do is one >of them. (Mandrake works great as long as you >only use Mandrake-prepackaged software.) The >other is the growing commercialization of the >major distros. I don't want shareholders telling >me how to run my computer! > >I agree with JC, FreeBSD is fun. I was having >fun with Linux, until I realized what fun really >is. :) Freedom is always more fun. > >Shannon > >--- Jesus Cash wrote: > > >>I'm pretty much in the same boat as Shannon >>here. Maybe not as advanced >>in Linux, but there was just something in Linux >>that I felt was off. >>I've been telling people I've never said I love >>an OS before, but I love >>FreeBSD. >> >>As for learning curve? What learning curve? :P >>I pretty much just threw >>myself in and have been figuring stuff out for >>myself. Most importantly, >>it's been a FUN learning experience. >> >>-B >> >> >> > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. >http://search.yahoo.com > > >