From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 30 7:42:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from nwcst316.netaddress.usa.net (nwcst316.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.23.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5CF237BD7C for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 07:42:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom.hines2@usa.net) Received: (qmail 4913 invoked by uid 60001); 30 May 2000 14:42:36 -0000 Message-ID: <20000530144236.4912.qmail@nwcst316.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.23.61 by nwcst316 for [207.91.82.137] via web-mailer(34FM1.4.02C) on Tue May 30 14:42:35 GMT 2000 Date: 30 May 00 08:42:35 MDT From: Tom Hines2 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM1.4.02C) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Linux convert here. I ran Linux for several years. I tried Redhat 5.2, Redhat 6.0, Mandrake 6.0, and finally Redhat 6.1. I wanted to try Debian= , but they were too slow getting out a release with the 2.2 kernel. My goal wa= s to give up Windows entirely, but I couldn't because my ppp connection was unreliable in Linux. I started eyeballing FreeBSD about a year ago and really wanted to try it= =2E = The ppp situation in Linux finally made me switch. I spent all day Satur= day installing and configuring 4.0-RELEASE. All went smoothly. I had a litt= le trouble getting my ppp connection configured, but once up, it ran great. My verdict? I love it! Now I'm back where I was with Linux, with my bla= ckbox window manager and all my favorite dock apps, although I'm taking a serio= us look at gkrellm (http://gkrellm.net) as a replacement for those :-). I can't wait to get back home to continue tweaking it and do the one thin= g I was never able to do with Linux -- get some work done! :-) I just wanted to share my story and say that I was happy to be amongst th= e freebsd-newbies. See you online. Tom Hines Rockville, MD ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message