Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:56:17 -0800 From: "John" <podgod@earthlink.net> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Definitely a newbie... Message-ID: <000701be703a$e20d7760$ebb2bfa8@johnmiwa>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I currently have a PII 266 with Win95 and Solaris 2.6. Solaris is not quite what I expected and would like to switch to freeBSD to learn more about Unix. I have three questions: 1.) How do I get rid of the Sun boot manager that comes up every time I turn on the machine? 2.) Will freeBSD run all the popular software that Linux runs? Netscape, WordPerfect, and the like? I say linux because most of the software is cheap! 3.) Is freeBSD a good flavor of Unix for a new computer science student to use on a home computer to learn about Unix and networking? I don't know, maybe these questions are in someones FAQ but I have not found them? Thank you for any help you can offer...John. [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000>I currently have a PII 266 with Win95 and Solaris 2.6. Solaris is not quite what I expected and would like to switch to freeBSD to learn more about Unix. I have three questions:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000>1.) How do I get rid of the Sun boot manager that comes up every time I turn on the machine?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000>2.) Will freeBSD run all the popular software that Linux runs? Netscape, WordPerfect, and the like? I say linux because most of the software is cheap!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000>3.) Is freeBSD a good flavor of Unix for a new computer science student to use on a home computer to learn about Unix and networking?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000>I don't know, maybe these questions are in someones FAQ but I have not found them? Thank you for any help you can offer...John.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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