Hello,
Sorry, don't have all of the original message...
I think the newbie you are helping would at first find mandrake more
informative. It would let them see all the different parts of a unix type
OS. Perhaps a store bought box containing useful books for them. Then maybe
a year from
Chuck McManis wrote:
To put it in perspective, the best way to start USING FreeBSD as opposed
to acquiring it to develop with, is probably to by an Apple machine with
OS-X installed. All the integration is handled for you. It pains me that
there isn't an organization of Apple's caliber
At 06:00 AM 3/6/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Chuck McManis wrote:
To put it in perspective, the best way to start USING FreeBSD as opposed
to acquiring it to develop with, is probably to by an Apple machine with
OS-X installed. All the integration is handled for you. It pains me that
there isn't
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At 06:00 AM 3/6/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Chuck McManis wrote:
To put it in perspective, the best way to start USING
I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who have
have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be setting
up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating whether I should
use FreeBSD or some Linux distro like mandrake or debian. I will be
there most of
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 6:16 pm, Loren M. Lang wrote:
I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who
have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might
be setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating
whether I should use FreeBSD or some Linux
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:16:09 -0800
Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who
have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be
setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating
whether I should use
. Lang
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:16:09 -0800
Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who
have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be
setting up a unix
My less than complimentary thought is that they all suck, but that's only
because 99% of the developers who are writing code for *Linux/*BSD don't
really care about the new user experience. They care about whatever it is
they are developing.
Thus the difference between say standard install
* Charles McManis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-06 11:48]:
My less than complimentary thought is that they all suck, but that's only
because 99% of the developers who are writing code for *Linux/*BSD don't
really care about the new user experience. They care about whatever it is
they are
At 12:42 PM 3/6/2004, Joshua Lokken wrote:
It doesn't seem like a splash screen can really tell you
much about the quality of a piece of software or an OS.
No it can't, and for end users its all they care about. Which is how long
before I can start using this thing?
To put it in perspective, the
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