Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:09:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Passive PROFITS <passiveprofits@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie Update - & thanks! :) Message-ID: <966774.35282.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Hi All,
Just to say, thanks to your pointers and
encouragement, I've spent my first few days messing
about with BSD! :)
First off, I wimped out (shame really) and installed
DesktopBSD as I was already at least 'glance' familiar
with KDE from Ubuntu Linux. This gave me some
confidence. The slow update/repository server was an
ache though; taking almost a day or two to fully
update my system. For the update speed alone, I
decided DesktopBSD would not do, and that I'd better
now pluck up the courage to install v.6.2_RELEASE ...
A false start later (messed up the Network Config), I
got a working install of FreeBSD up and running - hip
hip hooray! :)
I've decided there is no use punishing myself so I
have decided to put on a desktop - Gnome. I started
this download/compile/install like about 24 hours ago,
and it's still going strong. Now I understand the
difference between precompiled packages and building
from source, even if only in terms of the time &
resource constraints! :(
Anyway, it feels good to have my first 'matrix-like'
computer screen, when the computer is actually doing
something other than display a screen saver!! <ggg>
Fingers crossed I'll get a clean boot of Gnome within
less than another few hours, and then I can take a
peek at pf, and other gizmos, etc, hopefully, without
taking too much of a lesson in CLI, first!
NB: nice to notice there is some Linux/BSD overlap in
terms of apps etc; a lot more than I'd realised! ;)
Best,
PP
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