On Mon, 02 May 2011 20:07:54 -0500, Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz wrote:
On Mon, 2 May 2011 18:47:11 -0400, Louis Marrerolouis_marr...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Being familiar only with general knowledge on the Windows XP that I use
daily, I've gone on the web to find out more information on some
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:47:11PM -0400, Louis Marrero wrote:
Here are some questions that can help my understanding:
1. I know that Windows is an OS, and Linux/Unix as well as FreeBSD
are other Operating System. My very basic question is this: Is it even
possible to install a
--As of May 3, 2011 9:46:04 AM +0200, Polytropon is alleged to have said:
I would like to add the excellent manpages of the system.
Unlike many Linusi, those manpages are kept current by the
FreeBSD operating system developers and their documentation
assistants. So whenever you're not fully
Daniel Staal writes:
I would like to add the excellent manpages of the system.
Unlike many Linusi, those manpages are kept current by the
FreeBSD operating system developers and their documentation
assistants. So whenever you're not fully sure about something,
use man something.
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:46:04AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
There also is an additional tool called something like Power shell
(not fully sure, I'm not a Windows person) that is more like a UNIX
shell than CMD.EXE, which has its origins in the COMMAND.COM of DOS -
not the _real_ DOS of
On 2 May 2011 19:37, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote:
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Louis Marrero wrote:
Being familiar only with general knowledge on the Windows XP that I use
daily, I've gone on the web to find out more information on some of the
terms used by this programmer, such as BSD,
Gentlemen,
I have a number of really dumb questions that I hope you might be able to
shed some light on.
Although I am familiar with basic computer operation, I've been trying to
understand a very experienced programmer friend that mixes Linux/Unix
terminology in his vocabulary under the
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Louis Marrero wrote:
I have a number of really dumb questions that I hope you might be able
to shed some light on.
I shall endeavor to provide dumb answers in return :^) For *good*
answers, a great place to start is the Handbook,
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:47:11PM -0400, Louis Marrero wrote:
Gentlemen,
I have a number of really dumb questions that I hope you might be able to
shed some light on.
Although I am familiar with basic computer operation, I've been trying to
understand a very experienced programmer
Although others have already given you excellent replies,
I would like to add a few comments.
On Mon, 2 May 2011 18:47:11 -0400, Louis Marrero louis_marr...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Although I am familiar with basic computer operation, I've been trying to
understand a very experienced programmer
On 05/02/11 19:44, Polytropon wrote:
Although others have already given you excellent replies,
I would like to add a few comments.
I have a couple of suggestion that I've not yet seen
in the thread ... and kudos to you for a] asking, and
nicely done, and b] gathering your courage to give
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 08:07:54PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
On 05/02/11 19:44, Polytropon wrote:
You can also make use of so-called Live systems, a thing not common
to Windows: This is an installed and configured operating system
that you boot from a CD, DVD or USB stick. You do NOT have
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