Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 19:10:16 -0400 From: mj001 <mj001@rogers.com> To: Jesus Cash <jesuscash@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yahoo!!! Message-ID: <3EC2CCD8.5060500@rogers.com> References: <20030514152545.21062.qmail@web40402.mail.yahoo.com> <3EC285B2.3000305@cox.net>
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Jesus Cash wrote: > 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 <jesuscash@cox.net> 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 >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > How big is your laptop? I used to run FreeBSD and X-Windows (but not KDE or GNOME) on a 486DX33 (non-laptop) with 20MB. It worked, but was somewhat slow. A Pentium 120 with 48 MB runs KDE 3.0 quite well. But a NEC Versa LX laptop with 64 MB is impossibly slow - I suspect it may be the disk speed.
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