From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 7:49:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f19.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F8837B401 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:49:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marciofdavid@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:49:20 -0700 Received: from 200.171.111.74 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:49:20 GMT X-Originating-IP: [200.171.111.74] From: "=?iso-8859-1?B?TeFyY2lvIERhdmlk?=" To: marcus@marcuscom.com, culverk@wam.umd.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD ? What kind of OS is that ? Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:49:20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jun 2001 14:49:20.0760 (UTC) FILETIME=[5ABECF80:01C0FA61] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Thanx everyone for the replys.

Maybe I'll check this FreeBSD someday, when i have some free time (and a free HD... dont wanna have 2 OSs in the same HD..)

About the MacOS X, well, i had an iMac 233 and had lots of hardware problems (most of them in my monitor ! Just after about 1 year using it...). And Macs are REALLY expansive in my country... I can buy about 3 good pcs with the money... 

I'll still with Windows and BeOS for now...

Just one more thing.. Can  you give me a link for some FreeBSD screenshots ?

Gotta go. cya.

MD

>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
> >
> >
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