From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 2 11:37:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from honk.org (cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.90.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FB41525D for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:36:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from spectre (mpoulin@cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.90.129]) by honk.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA05119; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:36:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:36:15 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin X-Sender: mpoulin@spectre To: Carsten Holst Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A few questions In-Reply-To: <199911022020370760.008E76F5@mail.stofanet.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Carsten Holst wrote: > How much gear (as in hubs or cables etc) does it take to make a win box and > freeBSD box talk together?? 1 network card per box, and 1 crossover ethernet cable to connect the two cards. That's the simplest way - there's also Serial or Parallel cables that can be used, but I wouldn't be able to tell you how (although the Handbook can...) > About Linux vs. freeBSD, I would like to add, as a total newbie, that the Linux community with all > of the distributions seems rather confusing to me, whereas the freeBSD seems less confusing because of > there being only one distribution. Another reason for me being partial > to freeBSD, even before trying either Linux or freeBSD out, is all of > the nice replys I have gotten on this list. Thanks!! > Our pleasure! Good luck with your installation. M To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message