From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 3 2: 5: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from curlew.cs.man.ac.uk (curlew.cs.man.ac.uk [130.88.13.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9726915282 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 02:04:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk) Received: from fs3.rncm.ac.uk ([193.63.96.102] helo=rncm.ac.uk) by curlew.cs.man.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11BaTx-0008Yw-00; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:03:37 +0100 Received: from RNCM-FS3/SpoolDir by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 3 Aug 99 10:03:40 GMT Received: from SpoolDir by RNCM-FS3 (Mercury 1.44); 3 Aug 99 10:03:22 GMT Received: from selene (193.63.96.96) by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 3 Aug 99 10:03:12 GMT From: "Peter McGarvey" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: "David Kudrav" , , Subject: RE: basic info on freebsd needed... Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:03:11 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <19990803181819.B62948@freebie.lemis.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Basically, what you have said is the exact opposite of what I have > said. Does that make one of us right and one of us wrong? No, it > shows that there are more factors in play than the obvious difference > between FreeBSD and Linux. I know some of the reasons why Red Hat > didn't work on my installation. Some of them are not complimentary to > Red Hat. I don't know why your FreeBSD installation failed, but it's > probably not worth a post-mortem. > I didn't say my FreeBSD installation didn't work. What I was trying to say was that the out-of the box config of X in Linux was considerably better than the out of the box config of X in FreeBSD. To get FreeBSD to where Linux was took hours. But, I must admit geting FreeBSD configured was much more fun than Linux. TTFN, FNORD -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Peter McGarvey, Networks Manager | email: Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk Royal Northern College of Music | tel: +44 (0)161 907 5218 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, | fax: +44 (0)161 273 7611 England M13 9RD | mobile: +44 (0)7887 990564 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message