Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:12:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?B?TeFyY2lvIERhdmlk?= <marciofdavid@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD ? What kind of OS is that ? Message-ID: <20010620180341.I10696-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106201624330.9650-100000@rac3.wam.umd.edu>
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To add to Ken's comments, if you want to use a really nice, and easy OS with FreeBSD under the covers, I recommend Mac OS X. I know you'll have to buy new hardware for it, but it will definitely satisfy most of what you want. The GUI comes up out of the box, networking is a snap, and root is disabled ;-). While I persoanlly love FreeBSD, I'd hate to recommend it saying it will be the OS of your dreams. If you're looking for something like Windows, FreeBSD is probably not for you. Joe Clarke On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > I'm using M$ Win ME right now. I tried windows 95/98/ME/2K, MacOS, > > Linux (many distributions), BeOS, and some others OSs ! hehe Well, > > looking at all those OSs, I decided to continue with my old M$ > > OS........ But now I wanna something new ! Something diferent... not > > just a new stupid linux distribution that takes 5 hours to make it > > work and about a month to make the damn internet work. So, i would > > like to know if FreeBSD is a DIFERENT OS, or it's just another > > "Linux-like" OS. Exemple : Will i see a stupid prompt asking me to > > type "root" when i turn on my computer ? Will i have to use wich > > Graphical interface ? (please, say it's not KDE...) Guess that's all. > > OK, lets answer your questions. > > 1) As for ease of use: it's not windows, if you took 5 hours to get linux > working, (any distribution) and a month to get the internet working, then > FreeBSD will most likely be harder for you. If you want ease of use stick > with winblows or BeOS. Just for comparison though, once you get everything > working, you'll find that you can install and configure a system in less > than an hour, sometimes 30 minutes. (on my machine, that's faster than > windows installs, and I have only ever installed FreeBSD from the network, > never from CD) > > 2) Linux-like is the wrong way to put it. FreeBSD is UNIX-based, Linux is > a UNIX clone, so Linux is UNIX-Like, and FreeBSD is UNIX-based. > > 3) When you first install the machine, you will see a login prompt, this > is expected behavior for any UNIX based or UNIX like operating system, and > it's not stupid, it's just not windows as I said before. > > 4) You can choose which Graphical Interface is installed when you're > installing the operating system. KDE-2, Gnome, Windowmaker, etc... it's up > to you. > > 5) to me it seems like your idea of a good os is one that is easy and > doesn't crash much. Well I've never had FreeBSD crash, and it's hard to > learn at first, but once you learn it, it becomes easier, and more logical > than windows. (I can fix a FreeBSD problem in minutes usually, most often > without even rebooting the machine, where my windows expert friends often > fix their problems by rebooting the machine) > > Ken > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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