From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 11:34:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-46.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3138337B71A for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:34:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CA07366F34; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:34:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:34:41 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Dan H." Cc: Dave Tkach , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <20010327113441.A17199@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from danh@nofx.eagle.ca on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:20:36PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:20:36PM -0500, Dan H. wrote: > If you are used to Windows, it's more like DOS, than anything else. You > tell the computer what to do with your keyboard, instead of that lovely > mouse on your desk. Although, you can get X-Windows, which is sort of like > MS Windows. Well, I think you under-emphasized the use and utility of X a bit..most people use FreeBSD with the graphical interface, which can be installed from the FreeBSD installer. Choosing to install KDE or GNOME will give you a friendlier interface if you're new to UNIX, but ultimately UNIX is command-line driven, meaning it's easiest to get things done by typing commands at a prompt. Of course, you may never have to do this if all you want to do is play with your mouse and click things, but the command-line makes UNIX much more powerful than Windows (comparing it to DOS is not really fair). Kris --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6wOtRWry0BWjoQKURArsNAKDFZx7zaQN5VQcYAiN7o5sDYDPRBgCgtaDn DlLJJyink0yQOLuJkjtHDtU= =bFP5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message