Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 21:19:03 -0400 From: Bob Collins <pineypl@bellsouth.net> To: "Lloyd, John" <jlloyd@wpb.nuwc.navy.mil> Cc: freebsd newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: South Florida Newbies Message-ID: <39288B07.93BD7941@bellsouth.net> References: <E3A9EA12158ED111A9FD00E02915477FC1EF80@asdexch.wpb.nuwc.navy.mil>
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"Lloyd, John" wrote: > Depends upon how loosely one defines "South Florida", I suppose. > residence is actually in the Bahamas (Andros Island, near enough). Must be a terrible thing to be in the Bahamas! ;) West Palm is nice. I grew up here. > homebuilt Vegetron-, uh, Celeron-based machine that I had originally > configured for BeOS. (I'm one of those masochists who enjoy mucking around > with multiple OSes; it's a little like playing Myst, except one might Funny, one of my best friends calls me "An O/S Fiddle _ucker!" He actually has me aliased to his mail program that way. It makes me laugh. I too have messed with BeOS, Linux, Novell, and SCO. I really like the Be, but do not like the wackiness in networking. With the DSL, it seems to require often restarts of networking. > Although the FreeBSD installation process seemed to have gone smoothly > enough at first, it now looks as if there will be a bit of a learning curve The FreeBSD was a very smooth install for me, it was very similar to my first Slackware Linux install. I am quite fond of the FeeBSD.org pages. Many good links there. Yes, the learning curve is rather steep, but seems to be worth it. I am having good luck with Samba and Apache. I am going to put my FBSD box into my office environment for some additional secure storage (well, more secure than NT) and to test Apache versus IIS for speed and stability. Should prove to be fun. > Will comment further after I figure out how to get XFree86 working with my I am using KDE when I must have a gui, but an getting quite comfy at the command line and using the regular stuff. I must admit, I am shying away from the gui because I am running (IMHO) a marginal machine. P-133, 64MB. But, in my basic simple Apache vs IIS tests, this marginal machine runs better than IIS on a PIII-533, 512. Go figure. > software from the 4.0 CD-ROMs. (In this case, RTFM didn't do much good. 'nuff said. > Comments at truly annoying length will have to wait a while, as I'm taking > off this week for a month's vacation and the FreeBSD box isn't coming with Enjoy. BTW, where does one go to get away from the Bahamas? Quite the conundrum methinks. -- Bob Collins (Powered by M42 on the road) (Powered by ADSL on the net) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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